Harby Church Of England Primary School

Harby Church of England Primary School is a school building constructed in 1861, with extensions and alterations made in the 20th century. It is built from coursed squared ironstone, featuring limestone dressings, and has a slate roof with white brick stacks. The building has a T plan, consisting of a single-storey school and a two-storey former school house, arranged in a five-window range.

The central section of the building, which runs parallel to the street, has a prominent three-light chamfered stone mullion window, flanked by two similar two-light windows. The right cross wing projects slightly and features a three-light chamfered stone mullion and transom window on the gable end, along with a small rectangular ventilation slit above, both surrounded by chamfered stone.

To the left, the two-storey cross wing, which was formerly the school house, has an attached porch on its right side. The front of the porch continues the gable end wall and includes a Gothic-arched doorway with wave and hollow chamfers, topped by an ogee hood mould with a foliage finial, situated just below the triangular corbelling that supports the base of a former bell turret. This turret displayed reliefs of a Pelican in her Piety on the left and an open book on the right. An offset buttress is located to the right of the doorway.

The gable end of the cross wing has two-light chamfered stone mullion windows on both the ground and first floors, each with hood moulds. Additional architectural details include a chamfered plinth, limestone quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. The ridge stacks have rectangular bases and diagonally set square flues with brattished tops. The architects responsible for at least some of the 19th-century work were Bellamy and Hardy, as noted in Kelly's Directory for Leicestershire in 1932.