Old School House And Attached Outbuilding

This is an early 17th-century farmhouse, later used as a school and shop, and now divided into two cottages. It has undergone later additions and alterations. The building is timber-framed with rendered and painted brick infill, partly roughcast and part weatherboarded, and has slate roofs. The layout is L-shaped, comprising a long north-south hall range with a single-bay cross-wing projecting to the east at the south end.

The west side of the hall range shows exposed timber framing, with square panels to the left of the stack, four from sill to wall-plate, and some replaced by painted brick on the ground floor. To the right of the stack, the first floor exhibits close-set vertical posts with large, irregular square panels below. The windows are irregular; there are five 20th-century casements directly below the eaves to the left of the stack, one window to the left, and four grouped together to the right, with five 20th-century windows to the ground floor. A prominent gabled half-dormer on the right incorporates a late 19th-century casement in the centre and a smaller leaded casement below the eaves. A further late 20th-century casement appears on the ground floor. A red brick ridge stack is located to the right of the centre, with a lean-to rubblestone bread oven below.

A two-storey lean-to abuts the east side, formerly featuring external wooden steps which are now clad in 20th-century weatherboarding. Twin gables face the road, and contain bay windows – former shop fronts – to the left and right of a late 19th-century half-glazed door which is sheltered by a bracketed gabled hood. Late 19th-century casements are located on the first floor of each gable. A full-height brick lean-to is attached to the north wall of the cross-wing, which itself has exposed timber-framed square panels and an external red brick end stack to the gable.

Attached to the north gable end of the hall range is a late 17th-century outbuilding, constructed with a weatherboarded timber frame and a corrugated iron roof.

Inside the house, chamfered ceiling beams are found in the ground-floor rooms, and timber-framed square panels are exposed on one cross wall of the hall range. Close-set vertical posts are partly visible on the first floor. Original wall posts, collar and tie beam trusses (to the hall range), wide-boarded oak floorboards (to the first-floor rooms), and a collar and tie beam end truss with V-struts from the collar are also notable features. The outbuilding has a collar and tie beam end truss to the right.