School Adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church

The building is a school, constructed between 1888 and 1889 by Charles Bell. It is located on the south side of High Street, Epworth, and adjoins the Wesleyan Memorial Church. The schoolroom is built of rock-faced ashlar to the front and sides, with yellow brick to the rear, and has ashlar dressings throughout. Welsh slate covers the roof. The building consists of a main schoolroom with three single-room wings to the north, a main entrance lobby and a covered annexe to the right, connecting to the Wesleyan Memorial Church, and a small hall and outhouses to the rear, which form the south side of a courtyard.

The main north front features three adjoining single-bay wings, flanked by a main entrance lobby to the right and a recessed secondary entrance to the left. It has a chamfered plinth and quoins. Each gabled wing has a single, three-light ashlar mullioned-and-transomed window with pointed lights, linked by a flush ashlar band. The central gable is topped by a tall, stepped stack with ashlar offsets and triple cylindrical shafts, while the flanking wings have string courses and blind quatrefoil panels beneath stone-coped gables featuring shaped kneelers and trefoil finials. The range to the right, adjoining the church, has a three-light mullioned-and-transomed window. The secondary entrance to the schoolroom has a chamfered rounded-trefoil arch with a pointed hoodmould and an ornate ironwork door, positioned beneath a moulded string course and coped parapet. The east gable end of the schoolroom has a large, pointed four-light plate-traceried window with pointed transomed lights, a moulded string course, a foiled round light, a hoodmould and head stops, and a pierced quatrefoil above.

The south side (rear) has a projecting central gabled wing with a traceried ashlar oculus, flanked by buttresses and three-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with segmental arches. The schoolroom and the smaller hall both have coped gables with shaped kneelers and trefoil finials.

The interior is largely unaltered and includes a corbelled arch-braced roof in the schoolroom, along with panelled ceilings and doors. The school forms part of an unusually ornate group of Methodist buildings erected in commemoration of John Wesley and the Wesley family of Epworth, and it is included for group value.