The Old Schoolhouse

The Old Schoolhouse is a village school and master's house with an added reading room, now converted into a house. It was built in 1848 for Edward Strutt, Lord Belper, and extended in 1891 in memory of his wife, Emily, Lady Belper. The building was converted to a house around 1970. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The gables are moulded brick coped with kneelers and finials, and there are seven tall square brick chimney stacks, arranged in three pairs and a single stack, set at an angle.

The street front features a recessed center with two 2-light cross casement windows. To the left, there is a projecting gabled porch with a blocked 4-centred arched doorway that has a moulded ashlar surround. To the right, there is a 4-light mullion window. The former master's house is in a projecting gabled wing to the left, which has a 3-light mullion window on the ground floor and a similar 2-light window above. Beyond this is a single-storey lean-to with a small fixed light. To the right, the projecting gabled wing of the later reading room features a large 4-light cross casement window and an inscription plaque above with a 4-centred arched head and hood mould. There is another projecting gabled porch beyond this.

The right return has a single projecting gable with a single cross casement window. The left return is masked by a single-storey lean-to, with a large external stack visible above and a 2-light mullion casement to the left. The rear front has two large gables, each with tall pairs of external stacks. The left gable has single cross casement windows on either side of the stack, and between these stacks is a late 20th-century conservatory.