Windermere House

Windermere House is a girls' charity school, later converted to offices, built in 1849. It was likely designed by Sharpe and Paley and is constructed in the Elizabethan Vernacular style. The building is of coursed and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. The plan is rectangular, with the main entrance located in the second bay. Chimney stacks with diagonally set flues are situated between the second and third bays and on the right-hand gable. A low service wing extends to the rear.

The building has two storeys and five slightly irregular bays, each featuring a gabled dormer. The doorway is defined by a moulded two-centred arch leading to a boarded door, recessed by two steps. An arched niche above the doorway contains sculpted figures of two girls holding an inscription. A four-light mullioned window is positioned to the left of the ground floor, all windows sharing arched lights. The first two gables are offset slightly to the left, each featuring a two-light mullioned and transomed window. To the right of the doorway on the ground floor are four three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Above, the first floor features only three three-light stepped mullioned and transomed windows, each beneath a gable. The left-hand gable wall has a three-light mullioned and transomed window on both the ground and upper floors, with the upper window stepped. A raised yard is located to the left of the building.

The interior includes a large room on each floor to the right of the entrance; the upper room has an arch-braced roof. Of historical interest, the school replaced a smaller one on the same site, opened in 1772, a datestone of which is visible inside on the ground floor. An inscription above the main doorway, now largely illegible, acknowledges Richard Newsham, Agnes Bowes, William Ford, and his sisters for their contributions in 1849.