Former National School And Schoolmaster'S House

The former National School and schoolmaster's house, dated 1852, is located on Church Street in Byers Green. It is possibly designed by G.Y. Wall, who also designed the nearby Church of St. Peter. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings and a ridge.

This Jacobean-style structure is two stories high with three bays. The first bay projects under the front gable, and there is a chamfered stone surround to a renewed door in the second bay, which is set under a relieving arch. The windows have a similar stone treatment, with two lights in the outer bays and one above the door; the lower window is blocked, while the upper has glazing bars. A late 19th-century sash window is located over the door.

On the first floor, the right end window breaks the eaves under the gable, and there is a low-relief date panel at the peak of the left bay gable. The steeply-pitched roof features copings on curved kneelers. The right side of the building has an external stack with offsets, although the chimney has been removed. The right return connects to the school, which is attached to the rear of the house. This one-story section has two wide bays and a central buttress, with gabled blocked windows that break the eaves. The rear gable of the school includes tracery in a high two-centred-arched window. The left return features a one-story cross wing of the school, with paired eight-pane sash windows.

At the time of the survey, the house was empty, while the school was being used as a church hall.