The Old School

The Old School is a building that was originally a school and school-house, now converted into a house. It was constructed in 1840 for the Duke of St Albans Estate, with alterations and additions made in 1891, as noted on a tablet. The building was restored and converted into a house around 1980. It features dressed limestone with limestone ashlar dressings and a slate roof.

The main structure is L-shaped in plan, consisting of a two-room school-house with a classroom wing at right angles and an outshut entrance porch in the angle. At the rear, there is an L-shaped outhouse range. The east front has a two-storey, single-bay gabled school-house section, with a single-storey, two-bay classroom and an entrance porch set back to the right. The single-storey outhouses have three openings to the left and a two-window section that projects forward at right angles on the right side.

The building features a chamfered plinth and quoins throughout. The porch includes a step leading to a panelled door, which is set within a four-centred wave-moulded arch beneath a square-headed hood-mould. The classroom to the right has a four-light ashlar chamfered-mullion window. To the left, there is a small casement window in the porch, with a small raking dormer above it. The school-house has a single ground-floor three-light and a first-floor two-light mullioned window. All the mullioned windows are fitted with glazing bars, have chamfered reveals, and are topped with hood-moulds.

The gable is coped with shaped kneelers and finials. The school-house features an axial stack with a moulded band, a cluster of four square shafts, and a cornice. The outhouse range, which is now part of the house, includes a 20th-century glazed door, along with original board doors and casements in ashlar surrounds. The classroom wing has a pointed three-light mullion and transom window, with a 20th-century rebuilt right gable-end and two three-light mullioned windows at the rear. The school-house also has two-light and three-light mullioned windows, as well as a 20th-century wooden canted bay window at the rear.