The Former National Girls School

The Former National Girls School is a building dated 1845, located on Church Street in Ashover. It is constructed of horizontally tooled ashlar gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a plinth, a moulded cornice with a blocking course, a coped Dutch gable over the porch, and crow-stepped gables. The roof is covered with concrete tiles.

The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with an advanced two-storey gabled porch that includes shallow corner piers. The central doorway is framed by a moulded ashlar surround and features a three-centred arched lintel beneath a hood mould with label stops. Above the doorway is a rectangular plaque with the date, and above that is a quatrefoil opening. The bays flanking the porch contain tall three-light chamfered mullioned windows, each light topped with a three-centred arched head, all beneath hood moulds with label stops. The corners of this elevation are accentuated by shallow diagonal buttresses that reach the height of the first-floor window heads. The doorway has a 20th-century planked door, and all window openings are fitted with leaded lights. The plaque above the doorway bears the inscription: 'Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it (Prov.XXII.6) In Dei laudem, et in ijujusqe parochiae usum hanc scholam dedicabit'.