The Old School

The Old School is a former school building with an attached schoolmaster's cottage, now converted into a single dwelling. It dates back to 1724, with later alterations and a rear extension added in 1890. The structure is built of brown brick in English Garden Wall bond, featuring red sandstone dressings and a slate roof with coped gables and a single brick gable stack.

The school is a single storey with five bays, where the end bays are gabled and project forward. The schoolmaster's cottage, located to the left, is one bay and includes a storey and attic. The cottage features a projecting stone plinth, flush quoins, a projecting band over the ground floor window, and an ogee moulded eaves cornice. The ground floor window is a multi-paned horizontal sliding sash set beneath a brick flat arch with a stone keyblock. The attic window is a two-light casement with glazing bars, situated in a flat-roofed half dormer with side pilasters. Between the windows, there is an ogee-topped tablet displaying the date 1724.

The projecting end bays of the school have coped gables with kneelers, while the central bays are topped with a shallow coped parapet that fronts a wide lead gutter. The left end bay features a boarded door beneath a segment-arched lintel with a turning piece, while the right end bay has a large casement window divided into nine panes, set under a projecting band with a key. Both gables have moulded eaves cornices interrupted by cross-glazed oval windows beneath floating cornices. The central bays contain tall windows, with the outer ones having 15 panes and the centre one featuring paired 10-pane lights, all within keyed raised surrounds and transoms that extend across the full width of the front as a raised band. The right return of the building displays stepped lancets in the gable wall.

Inside, the right room showcases both strutted and king post trusses with cambered tie beams, while the left room has a firebeam and an exposed ceiling beam. The cottage includes an 18th-century hob-grate in the bedroom, along with a wide boarded door. The building was founded by Bishop Robert Wilson and was previously known as Bishop Wilson School.