Rothwell Infants School

Rothwell Infants School is a board school and attached school house dating from 1872, with later 19th and 20th century alterations. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs with ashlar coped gables, moulded kneelers, and finials. The brick chimney stacks are varied. The building is in a Gothic Revival style, comprising a single-storey school with a two-storey schoolmaster's house.

The main north-west front has the schoolmaster's house in a slightly projecting gabled wing. A recessed Gothic-style doorway has a polychromatic pointed arch and ashlar hood. To the right is a three-light casement window, above which are a single and a two-light casement windows. A small ventilator is in the gable apex. A recessed centre has a six-window facade, with large six-pane windows and chamfered cills to the centre and right windows. A five-stone step approach leads to the former boys’ entrance, with double plank doors, ornate iron hinges and a tripartite overlight. The remaining windows have casements with glazing bar upper lights. Brick buttresses with set-offs are between the openings. The right gable has a large three-light window with transoms, graduated lights, and a pointed relieving arch triple. The arch has alternating brick and stone voussoirs and a moulded ashlar hood. An ashlar band is inscribed "BOARD SCHOOL".

The south-west front has a twelve-window façade arranged as 2, 3, 3, and 4 windows. To the left are two cross casement windows, followed by three tall cross casement windows which extend through the eaves to small coped gables. A later off-centre projection has three small windows, followed by four further cross casement windows.

The rear schoolyard facades feature a large pointed arch with three windows to the left gable end of the south-west front. Above is a large pointed relieving arch with brick and stone voussoirs, flanked by single similar windows. The gable apex has five blind lancets.

The main classrooms have pairs of gables, each with large three-light graduated windows with transoms and pointed relieving arches.

A small detached nursery wing to the south has a street front with a tall central cross mullion window projecting through the eaves to a gabled dormer above. Single two-light windows are either side, and to the right is another tall cross mullion window which projects into the gable. To the left is a blank wall with a blind dormer above.

The north-west front has a doorway with an elaborate faience surround and segmental pediment to the left, and to the right, a graduated four-light window in a gable.

The interior has exposed wooden roofs supported on ashlar corbels in all classrooms and the hall. Most rooms retain original six-panel doors and dado panelling. Fragments of a former glazed dividing screen survive in some classrooms.