School House

School house with an attached master's house, dating from the early 18th century. The building is now divided into two dwellings. It is constructed of magnesian limestone rubble for the school section and ashlar for the house, with composition tile roofs and brick chimneys. The long, rectangular range is divided into two unequal sections. The right-hand section is the house, a two-story, five-bay structure in a classical style. It features a panelled door with a four-pane overlight, now sheltered by a modern stone porch, and twelve-pane boxed sash windows on both floors. A gable has stone coping with moulded kneelers and a four-flue chimney stack runs along the centre of the ridge. To the left of the house is the three-story school section, with similar boxed sashes at ground floor and at the right-hand end of the first floor. There are two square two-light casements on the first floor, and three two-light horizontal sliding sashes on the second floor. An early service addition, originally three stories and now altered to two, sits to the left of the school section, with a sixteen-pane boxed sash at ground floor, a twelve-pane boxed sash above, and patches of masonry where a second-floor window was removed. A coupled chimney stack is located at the junction between the service addition and the school, and another chimney is present at the junction with the house.

The original main entrance to both parts of the building was through the door of the house, which now belongs to what was formerly the school. The room above the entrance hall in the house retains a moulded plaster cornice and a ceiling rose. The principal room of the house also features a deep moulded plaster cornice and a coved alcove with a wooden architrave. The school section includes a large sitting room (likely the former schoolroom), where a staircase rises along the rear wall. This staircase has an open string, scrolled brackets, and stick balusters. Both sections have a longitudinal passage at ground floor, which was previously interconnected.

The school was founded by Lady Betty Hastings as a boys' school, alongside an orphanage for girls.