2 Old School Houses

2 Old School Houses is a former schoolhouse that opened in April 1872 and closed as a school in 1912, after which it was converted into two cottages. It was built at the expense of the 3rd Marquis of Westminster, next to the site of an earlier school, as noted in the 1837 tithe map for Aldford. The building is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond, set on a battered plinth of squared snecked rubble sandstone, and features half-timbered gables. It has steeply pitched red tile roofs with two rectangular brick chimneys on the main ridge. The structure is one and a half storeys tall and has a front with four windows. The former school hall, located on the left, has gables at the front and end supported by stone corbels, while the Schoolmaster's house on the right features a half dormer gable at the front and a small dormer under a raking roof in the center. The lower storey has small-pane iron casements in bevelled mullioned openings of sandstone, while the upper storey has timber-framed openings. The doors are framed and boarded. The interiors have not been inspected.