Old School

The Old School, now a house and three flats, was built in 1863 and extended in 1893. Designed by G.E. Street, it is constructed of coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings, with a buff-coloured brick extension. The building has slate roofs with ornamental clay ridge tiles and ashlar coped gables featuring fleur-de-lys profiled ridge rolls. Chimneys are of projecting stone with ashlar offsets, with an ashlar shaft on the left, a later brick shaft in the centre, and a missing shaft on the right.

The plan consists of a main central range with cross wings at each end and a parallel rear wing. The flats are located in the former single-storey accommodation on the left, while the house occupies the original two-storey range to the right.

The south front features three gables to the central range, each with tall mullion and transom windows with pointed heads, foiled tracery, and hood moulds. A stack divides the gables centrally to the left, and a projecting lean-to entrance porch is present on the left. The cross wing to the left has a tall pointed three-light window with foiled intersecting tracery and a hood mould. The cross wing to the right features 4/4 and 8/8 sash windows at first-floor level over 10/10 sash windows at ground-floor level, each with a chamfered stone lintel and relieving arch. The left side of this gable is partially covered by a turret with a conical roof, featuring a curved mullion and transom window at the first-floor level over a curved pointed arched doorway.

The right return side has a stone stack to the left and sashes replacing a former mullioned window, with a raised dormer window to the right. The left return side contains a stone stack to the right and a two-light stone mullion window with a cusped lancet head infill and a chamfered stone lintel. A brick extension wing is positioned to the far left, with a gabled side incorporating a stepped triple lancet window with multi-pane casement glazing, and a date plaque above.

The rear of the building features a north gable end of brick with a pointed arched window at a high level. The central parallel wing has three stone mullion and transom windows and a pointed arched doorway with a stone mullion window above, terminating in a gable end with a trefoil above four-light mullion and transom windows with cusped top-lights. To the left is a cross wing gable end with a 10/10 sash with a chamfered stone lintel at the first floor and lean-to extensions below.

The interior was not inspected.