Parsons Farewell

Parsons Farewell is a former school and schoolmaster’s house, dating from 1857 and designed by William Butterfield. It was later used as a vicarage and is now a house and shop. The building was altered in 1929 by George Nott. The ground floor is primarily brick with bonded stone window jambs. The upper storey is rendered and whitewashed with half-timbering, and the roof is tiled with an ornamental ridge; battered brick chimneys have pilasters.

The building includes a schoolmaster’s house of one and a half storeys to the left, with a main schoolroom in a lower cross wing to the right. It has irregular, battered buttresses to the ground floor and is described as asymmetrically picturesque.

The schoolmaster’s house has two wide bays with an entrance hall between. It features narrow, barred wooden sashes with shaped heads. The left bay has the upper storey jettied on brackets, with a three-light window to the ground floor. The right bay has a three-light and single-light window to the former infants' room on the ground floor, a two-light window in a large half-hipped semi-dormer, and a single light in a smaller matching semi-dormer to the left. Between the bays is a 1929 gabled, half-timbered porch with a door, and an inserted two-light wooden casement above, also dating to 1929.

The gable of the schoolroom wing projects to the right; it was originally one storey but was converted to two in 1929. This gable end is completely half-timbered on a brick plinth, with the upper storey jettied on shaped brackets and cusped bargeboards with pierced ornament. It has 20th-century leaded casements—a five-light window to the ground floor and a four-light window above. A weathercock is present. The right side has a central buttress and retains one original two-light leaded window. A lean-to lobby, likely of later date, is located at the rear gable. The rear of the house has been raised and altered.