The Old Grammar School

The Old Grammar School, dating circa 1696, was originally built for the Constable family. The Keldgate (north) elevation was updated in the early and late 18th century. It is a two-storey stucco building with seven windows, all now reglazed, and one blind window. The central doorway has a circa 1770 wood doorcase featuring an architrave, chambranles, moulded and enriched consoles, a frieze, a central tablet, a dentil pediment, a six-panel door, and a fanlight. A moulded brick eaves cornice and iron spouting are also present. Number 54A has a separate pantile roof and a War Memorial tablet.

The garden front, to the east, is constructed of red brick and is five windows wide; the central windows were originally closet-type and are now bricked up, with three being blind and featuring gauged heads. A plain tile hip roof tops this façade.

Inside, the staircase is from 1696 and features a closed moulded string, a pulvinated frieze, a massive plain newel with drop finials, a moulded handrail, vase-shaped balusters below, and spiral balusters above. The back stairs have a closed string, plain newels with ball finials, a plain handrail, and large vase-shaped balusters. Two rooms, one on each floor, exhibit raised moulded panelling to dado height. Chimneypieces of circa 1770 are found throughout, with fluted pilasters and fluted friezes. Two first-floor rooms have chimney-pieces incorporating landscape paintings on the overmantel panels. There is also one other wainscotted ground floor room. A rear first floor room has a moulded box cornice and joinery chimneypiece with a moulded frieze, mantelshelf and overmantel flanked by panelled pilasters. A rear ground floor room contains a Beverley-type peat-burning fireplace. Some windows have panelled window seats.