Master'S House And Attached Stone Built Portion Of Shevington Community Primary School (Nursery Department)

The Master's House and the attached stone-built portion of Shevington Community Primary School (Nursery Department) is a school building that is now closed, dating from 1814. It was likely founded by Richard Perryn, who was the Rector of Standish from 1779 to 1826. The building is constructed of coursed dressed stone, featuring a slate roof and a brick chimney stack. It has four bays, with three designated for the school and one for the master's house on the left. Although it is single bay in depth, the master's house is deeper than the school.

The windows are arranged over two floors; the upper windows have eight lights in pairs with the upper four opening, while the lower windows have 12 lights in pairs, also with the upper four opening. To the right, there is a single-storey entrance lobby with a hipped roof, which includes a single door at the front and two side windows. A plaque located between the school room and the master's house states, "This school for pious and useful learning was built by voluntary subscription in the year of our Lord 1814 RPR." There is a separate entrance to the master's house on the left.

At the rear, the windows of the master's house have been altered, but the school room features upper windows with three 6-pane lights divided by two mullions, and one lower window with wooden mullions and a transom, along with a side-hung casement in the center light. The other two lower windows are pairs of French windows.

Inside, the entrance lobby is to the right of a single schoolroom, which has windows on two levels but is only one storey high. Two king-post roof trusses are partly visible beneath a false ceiling, and there is a blocked fireplace at the left end. The master's house has a door to the left leading into a small lobby that connects to a front room with a blocked fireplace to the right and a blocked door to the right of the fireplace leading into the schoolroom. A door at the rear leads to a staircase on the left and a back room on the right, which has a door to the schoolroom. The first floor contains two rooms.

This building is a rare surviving example of a single-room schoolhouse and an attached master's house from the early 19th century, making it worthy of listing.