Former Free School

The Former Free School, dating from around 1720, is now part of a larger house. It is constructed of red brick with grey sandstone dressings, featuring a dressed sandstone plinth and exposed coursed brown sandstone rubble foundations on the south-east side. The building has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall. Notable architectural features include a tall chamfered plinth, a stone plat band, and parapeted gable ends with chamfered stone copings and shaped kneelers. There is an integral brick lateral stack on the south-east side.

On the north-west front, which faces the churchyard, there are three windows. The first floor has two-light leaded wooden casements, while the ground floor features leaded wooden cross-windows with stone lintels, though these have been blocked with brick up to the transom level. There is also a probably later blocked doorway to the left, indicated by straight joints, with a small inserted casement. Above the central ground-floor window, there is a stone plaque inscribed with "FREE SCHOOL."

The south-east front includes two first-floor two-light leaded wooden casements on the left and a single-light leaded casement on the right. The ground floor has two leaded wooden cross-windows to the left, also with stone lintels. The south-west gable end features a first-floor wooden cross-window, which is a 20th-century replacement, and a ground-floor boarded door that has been lowered at some point, as indicated by a blocked opening above with a lintel.

The school was initially endowed by William Hall in 1720 and again by John Russel in 1813.