St Cuthbert'S School

St. Cuthbert's School is a parish school built in 1882 by Smith and Son, with the site donated by Robert Dickinson of Shotley House. The building features dated inscriptions from 1881 and 1897 on its porches. Constructed from snecked sandstone, it has an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings. Designed in the Early English style, the school is a single-storey structure with a basement at the west due to the sloping hill, comprising five bays.

The inner returns of the porches display chamfered two-centred arches, with an open entrance featuring a recessed double door and overlight on the left, and a diagonally-boarded door on the right. The front gables of the porches are adorned with plate-traceried three-light windows, which include dated shields on leaf-stopped strings at the gable peaks. The left wing has a large plate-traceried three-light window in its front gable, while the main range between the porches features two groups of three lancet windows.

The porches have flat gable copings with roll-moulded finials, and the steeply-pitched roof is similarly detailed, complete with stone cross finials. A central Gothic-arcaded fleche topped with a wrought-iron cross finial adds to the architectural interest. The building is arranged in an L-plan, with the gabled left wing overlapping the left porch, and a matching porch in the right bay. It is included for its group value.