The Old School

The Old School is a school building, now used as a parish room, constructed in 1848 by W A Nicholson. It is made of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with ashlar coped gables and moulded kneelers. The building has a T-plan layout and is a single storey.

The main east front consists of five bays with an off-centre doorway that has a contemporary door and an ashlar moulded four-centred arched surround. To the left of the doorway are three three-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, each topped with curved gables that project through the eaves and are surmounted by three ball finials. To the right, there is a slightly projecting single gabled bay with a large three-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion window under a dripmould.

The north front has two bays, featuring another four-centred arched doorway to the left and a large four-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion square bay window with a stone hipped roof to the right. Above this is a wooden bell canopy topped with a pyramidal fishscale tile hipped roof. This building is part of the complete estate village built by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.