The Old School And Attached Boundary Wall

This building is a former village school, now used as a hall, constructed around 1860 by William Mundy. It is a red brick structure, laid in a Flemish bond pattern with decorative blue brick banding, and features stone dressings around the window openings. The roof is tiled with alternating bands of plain red and blue fish-scale tiles, with dentilled verges. The design is in a simple Gothic style, with an asymmetrical plan. The main range is tall and runs east-west, with a lower, hipped-roofed wing to the front and a plain, 'T' shaped service range to the rear, all connected to an enclosure wall.

The front elevation has a tall, three-bay main range built on a shallow plinth. At either end are gabled, two-light windows with pointed arches, stone sills, mullions, and transoms. The window lights have cusped heads, and the mullions have splayed heads, creating a 'Y'-traceried effect. A wider, three-light window is centrally positioned and similarly detailed. Decorative blue brick bands are visible above sill level and at eaves level, and a single band runs around the pointed heads of the windows. To the left of the centre is an advanced, hipped-roofed wing with two flat-headed, two-light mullioned windows in the hip wall, and opposed pointed arched doorways in the front and rear walls. A three-light window is located in the right (east) gable, and a two-light window is in the left gable. The rear elevation is largely blind, with a low 'T' plan service wing connecting the school to the enclosure wall.

Inside, the right-hand part of the building is open to the roof, displaying an exposed scissor-braced common rafter roof. There is a corbelled fireplace with a sloping brick hood on the front wall (the external stack has been removed). An internal partition wall features a wide, shallow pointed arch and a panelled partition incorporating double doors. A twentieth-century ceiling has been inserted into a single bay room beyond the partition.

Attached to the school is a boundary wall approximately one metre high, with stone and blue clay copings. The entrance has square gatepiers with gabled ashlar caps and a boarded gate. The school is a near complete and unaltered example of a mid-nineteenth century school, typical of educational provision at a parish level in England between 1840 and the Elementary Education Act of 1870.