The Old School And Adjoining Boundary Walls

School, now a house and workshop, and adjoining boundary walls. Dated 1826 and 1838, with 20th-century alterations. Designed by Anthony Salvin. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. A central external rear wall stack originally had five round coped flues, now reduced to one. A similar external stack is present on the left gable. The architectural style is Tudor Revival. The building features a plinth, quoins, shouldered coped gables with kneelers, and is single storey plus attics, with a five-window range. Windows have stone surrounds, chamfered mullions, and cornices, with most featuring diamond pane glazing. A central porch includes a through-eaves dormer with a crowstepped gable and finial, and a single light window. A moulded doorcase with a cornice leads to a four-centred arched board door, above which is a cross and a scroll with a Latin inscription. Single windows are positioned beyond, followed by larger cross casements. The right gable has a two-light window, topped with a gabled single bellcote. Below this is a square porch with a coped balustrade and a doorway similar to the front. The left gable has reglazed single light windows flanking the stack, and a single-storey service building extends from it, with a monopitch corrugated iron roof, a single door and window. At the front, two lengths of dwarf wall with chamfered coping and rounded corners, formerly topped with a railing, are present. A rear coursed squared stone boundary wall is approximately 2.5 metres high and 15 metres long, with a stepped coping and an off-centre chamfered doorway. The school was provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family. It is one of several estate buildings designed by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, between 1815 and 1853, in connection with Belton House.