The Original Block At Crosshills School

The original block at Crosshills School is a school building constructed in 1849. It is made of snecked, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The facade features a cross-wing on the left side with a gable facing the street, and a lower gabled porch to the right. The gable includes a 6-light mullioned and transomed chamfered window with a hood mould. Above this window is a carved stone tablet with a hood mould that displays the words 'Fear God' on a deeply undercut scroll. Under the apex of the gable, there is a one-light chamfered window. The doorway in the porch has a chamfered surround with a 4-centred head and a hood mould, featuring '1849' on a panel above. The porch also has shaped bargeboards. The right-hand return wall of the porch contains a one-light chamfered window with a hood mould, while the left-hand return wall of the cross-wing has a mullioned and transomed window with a square-sectioned hood mould and a chimney with shaped offsets.