Old School Community Centre And House Attached

A parish school with an attached house, now a community centre, was built in 1870 by Austin and Johnson. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and rock-faced quoins, and has a Welsh slate roof with red-moulded ridge tiles. It is laid out in an L-shaped plan, with the school and house forming three ranges around a yard that faces the road. The style is Medieval.

The main school block, of one storey, consists of a three-bay central portion with a one-bay projection to the left. To the right is a projection which is the left bay of a two-bay house, with the second bay set back. A porch is situated in the angle with the second bay. The school's main block has three wide windows, each with projecting lugged surrounds. The left wing has a front gable above a large, two-centred arched mullioned-and-transomed window with four ogee-headed lights in a hollow molded surround. A pent inner extension on the inner return of the left wing has a similar-style two-light square window facing forward, along with a door and window on its inner return, and a hipped roof to the front.

The house features chamfered stone mullions to a four-light window above a two-light window, and a top slit in the peak of the front gable. It has a shouldered stone surround to the door, which is located within a full-height porch to the right. The left inner return to the yard has a single light.

The steeply pitched roof has steeply-coped transverse chimneys, one on the left wing’s slope toward the central yard and another behind the house’s front gable. The right return gable of the school has a large window with three ogee-headed lights, set under a gabled bellcote.