The Old Schoolhouse

The Old Schoolhouse is a house that originally served as a bastle house and later became a school and schoolmaster's residence. It dates from the 16th century and early 19th century. The building features random rubble, particularly large stones in the older sections, along with tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings.

The structure has two storeys and consists of two sections. The left section, which is three bays wide, is from the early 19th century and includes a 20th-century conservatory and sash windows. The right section retains bastle masonry on the ground floor, with much of the upper part rebuilt in the 18th or early 19th century. The ground floor has a 20th-century glazed door and three renewed 16-pane sash windows, while the first floor features two 16-pane sash windows. The roof is gabled with a stack at the left end and two ridge stacks.

At the rear, there is a blocked ground-floor doorway with an alternating-block surround. Above this, the very worn doorstep of the first-floor doorway can be seen. The interior walls on the ground floor are approximately 42 inches thick, and the lower part of a finely-cut stone newel stair remains.