Brennand'S Endowed School

Brennand's Endowed School is an early 18th-century school building located on Church Street in Slaidburn. It is constructed from squared limestone rubble with sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical west facade with seven bays, characterized by quoins with channelled rustication and a string course. The windows are ovolo-moulded cross windows with architraves and glazing bars. Notably, the central first-floor window has a carved head on its lintel, while the central door is framed by an architrave with a worn carved head above it, flanked by fluted pilasters that support an open segmental pediment. Inside the pediment is an inscribed slate with a moulded border that reads: 'THIS GRAMMAR SCHOOL was Erected and Endowed by JOHN BRENNAND late of Panehill in this Parish, Gentleman, who died the 15th day of May in the Year of our LORD 1717'.

Both gable walls of the building feature two blocked windows on each floor, similar to those on the front, along with two string courses, a circular opening at attic level with a plain stone surround, and gable coping. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing with two bays facing south, where the left-hand bay has a cross window similar to those at the front. To the south of this wing are three bays of the main building facing east, which have windows akin to those at the front, except for the right-hand ground-floor window, which is modern. Inside, the first floor was removed around 1880, and the main building now consists of a single large room with a flat ceiling adorned with some later 19th-century plaster decoration.