Number 12 And The Old School

Number 12 and The Old School is a late 16th- to 17th-century house with an attached former school building, which now serves as church rooms. The house is constructed of deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. It has an irregular plan, comprising a two-storey, two-cell house and a four-bay wing to the rear left, which represents the original school building. A large 19th-century addition extends from the left return of the school wing, along with a smaller addition at the rear-right corner.

The front of the house has been altered; the doorway, located to the right of centre, is flanked by a four-pane sash window and an original three-light double-chamfered mullioned window on its left. A sixteen-pane sash window is positioned above the door, complemented by a blocked, double-chamfered single-light opening to the right. The house features shaped kneelers and cavetto-moulded gable copings. A rebuilt stone ridge stack and an end stack are situated on the right. A rear window on the school room wing consists of paired four-pane sashes within an original three-light surround, with a two-light double-chamfered window above. Shaped kneelers and gable copings are also present here. A one-storey wing on the left has a panelled door to the right of paired four-pane sashes, with a stack at the left end. The 19th-century addition to the left is set back and has renewed casements and gable copings on the left. The left return of the house displays an original doorway, now a window, with chamfered quoins and a cambered lintel. A four-light double-chamfered mullioned window, with a central mullion removed, has a dripstone above it; a similar intact window is situated above.

The Old School has four large transomed casements with glazing bars in chamfered surrounds and a chamfered doorway between bays three and four.

The interior of the ground-floor room on the left contains an ashlar fireplace, with a similar fireplace on the first floor backing onto it and now visible from the staircase. The ground-floor room on the right features a scratch-moulded bressumer beam. Fragments of the school may date back to 1560, as recorded in court rolls that allowed William Elmehyrste and William Broddesworth to build a grammar school near the church.