Old Grammar School, To Rear Of Numbers 8-14 (Numbers 8-14 Not Included)

The Old Grammar School, located to the rear of numbers 8-14 on School Lane in Up Holland, is a school building that has been converted into a workshop. It dates from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the early 18th century and the 20th century. The structure is built from coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a 20th-century pantile roof, which replaced the original stone slate.

The building has a T-plan layout, with the main range oriented east-west and a projecting porch-cum-stair-turret on the south side. It stands two storeys tall, with the eaves raised by three courses. The windows are now 1:1, and the left side of the porch, along with the entire range to its left, is covered by 19th or 20th-century workshops.

The two-storey gabled porch includes a 2-light double-chamfered stone mullioned window on each floor, although the lower window is now blocked with brick. The right-hand side of the porch features a Tudor-arched doorway, which has been altered into a window, with a chamfered surround, a massive lintel, and a straight drip-band that runs out to the left.

To the right of the porch, the main range has a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window at ground floor level, complete with a hoodmould. On the first floor, there is a smaller 3-light window with chamfered flush mullions. The left gable wall displays a 5-light double-chamfered mullioned window at ground level, with an inserted window above it, flanked by the jambs of a former mullioned window. The right gable wall has large wooden workshop doors that have replaced former mullioned windows on both floors, which are flanked by the returned ends of former hoodmoulds.

At the rear, there are two 4-light mullioned windows at ground floor level, similar to the others, along with the remains of a former mullioned window in the center of the first floor, and inserted windows to the left and right. The interior has not been inspected, but an altered staircase is visible in the porch, along with a series of large quarter-round moulded beams on the ground floor. A former list entry noted a plaque with the Derby crest and the date 1633, but this was not visible during the survey in 1991.