Worfield Church Of England Primary School

Worfield Church of England Primary School is a school and associated masters' houses built in 1846, with extensions in 1874 and the late 20th century. It is constructed of rock-faced red sandstone with plain tile roofs, featuring bands of scalloped tiles, crested ridge tiles, stone-coped gable ends with corbelled kneelers, and stone stacks with set-offs and red brick shafts.

The building has a T-shaped plan. The original school comprised two schoolrooms at right angles to each other, with the first school master's house attached to the south end of the west cross-wing. In 1874, a matching cross-wing containing two schoolrooms was added to the east end, another school master’s house was built on the south side, and a small office was constructed on the porch at the north end of the west cross-wing. A late 20th-century cloakroom and lavatory extension on the east side of the east cross-wing is not considered to be of special interest. The architecture is in the Post-Medieval Gothic style.

The schoolrooms are single-storey. The north front features a main range with a central canted stone bay window with two-light mullion-transom windows to left and right, with buttresses between. A gabled cross-wing is to the right, with a smaller, gabled office in front. The 1874 wing on the north side features single-light transomed windows and a three-light mullion-transom window in the gable end. The porch between the ranges includes an arched doorway with a hood mould, headstops, and plank double doors.

On the west side are four two-light mullion-transom windows with buttresses between, and a gabled cross-wing (the master’s house) to the right. This has a stone oriel with battlements and a moulded corbel on a large pilaster between two cross-mullion-transom windows. The south return of the west wing has three mullion-transom windows, a double-chamfered four-centred arch doorway with a plank door, and three gabled stone dormers. A single-storey link leads to another master’s house, featuring two bays with a gable and stone-mullion windows. The windows are casements with small panes.

The interior schoolrooms have been ceiled, but originally had roofs with arch-braced trusses with curved braces to the king posts. A two-bay Gothic arcade is located between the schoolrooms in the central range and west wing. Partitions have been removed from the east cross-wing. The building contains small, simple Gothic chimneypieces. A plain stick-baluster staircase is within the south-east master’s house.