Brides Hill Holiday Home

This is a former school building, dating to 1851, as indicated by a panel on the gable. It is constructed of squared stone with tooled and margined quoins, a right gable stack, timber porches, and a slate roof. The roof has two ridge stacks and a left gable stack, all rendered, with coped gables featuring moulded kneelers.

The building is single-storey and seven bays long. The central gabled bay has an obelisk finial and contains two four-panelled doors with six-pane overlights, recessed under latticed timber porches with ornamental bargeboards and finials. To either side of the central bay are three thirty-six-pane sash windows in dressed stone surrounds, each with slightly projecting sills. The left and right returns each have doorways under latticed timber porches. The right return features a projecting stack supported by four block corbels. The rear elevation includes a central bay with two boarded doors and eight-pane overlights. Smaller flanking gabled wings and three thirty-six-pane sash windows are also present on the rear, to either side.

The school was originally established in 1704 in a cottage located 100 metres north of the present building, serving the children of lead miners. An inscribed panel above the front doors, now likely concealed by a name board, reportedly reads: “built by, and on land belonging to W.B. Beaumont Esq., for the education of children of all religious denominations 1851.”