Lady Waterford Hall

Lady Waterford Hall is a former village school built in 1860 for the Marchioness of Waterford. The building is constructed of snecked stone with ashlar dressings and features a roof made of bands of Lakeland and Welsh slate, designed in the Tudor style. It is a single-storey structure with six bays. The outer bays have boarded doors set in flat-topped porches that include corbel tables. Bays two and five each contain two widely spaced narrow sidelights with four-pane sashes in chamfered surrounds, topped with floating cornices. The two central bays feature similar four-light windows and a corbel table. Above bays two and five are very high, steeply pitched gables with overlapping coping and tall, corbelled-out octagonal corniced chimneys at the apex. Each gable has an oval panel in a moulded frame that displays a crown and the monogram of the Marchioness of Waterford. The roof is notably high and steeply pitched, also with overlapping coping.

Inside, the main hall was decorated between 1861 and 1883 by the Marchioness, featuring a series of paintings done on paper and adhered to the walls, resembling murals in the Pre-Raphaelite style. The north wall displays nine panels with biblical scenes in arched surrounds accompanied by texts; the spandrels contain roundels with portrait heads, while the spaces in between are adorned with foliage and naturalistic details. The east wall features a large depiction of "Jesus in the midst of the doctors," and the west wall illustrates the text "Suffer little children to come unto me." The hall also has a nine-bay roof supported by moulded scissor braces. Notably, all the figures depicted in the paintings are portraits of local villagers and castle servants.