Caretakers House And Adjoining Walls At Carfield Schools

The caretaker's house and adjoining walls at Carfield Schools were built in 1903, likely by Joseph Norton for the Norton School Board. The structure is made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with a single coped gable and rear wall stacks. The gables are shouldered and the building has two storeys plus a basement, with a two-window range. The front of the house includes a small casement window, a door to the left, and a larger plain sash window to the right. The gable end facing Argyle Close has a large plain sash window on each floor, both with cornices. The rear features a small central plain sash window and below it, a small window flanked by larger plain sash windows. The basement has two square hatches with plank doors. The interior has not been inspected. Outside, there is a short wall with chamfered coping and a wrought-iron railing and gate. To the left, there is a square stone pier and a coped wall adjoining the house. At the rear, a dividing wall separates the upper and lower playgrounds, featuring triangular stone coping and two openings with stone dogleg stairs and balustrade walls.