The Old Boys School And Schoolhouse And Attached Privies

The Old Boys School, schoolhouse, and attached privies dates to 1857 and was designed by G.E. Street. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick detailing and ashlar dressings, topped with a plain tile roof featuring crested ridge tiles, brick ridge, and integral lateral stacks. The building is in the Gothic style.

The school room is aligned east-west, with a wing projecting from the east end of the south front, creating an L-shape for the schoolmaster’s house attached to the west, featuring a south projecting wing and a stair turret in the angle with the schoolroom. Privies are attached to the north-east corner.

The south elevation shows the schoolmaster’s house and stair turret on the left, and the schoolroom to the right. The schoolmaster's house is a two-story wing with a hipped roof, incorporating the truncated stair turret. Windows have colonette mullions and trefoil-headed lights; the ground floor window on the left features naturalistic foliage (oak leaves and acorns) to the capitals of the mullions. A pointed door is centrally positioned, flanked by a buttress and the stair turret. A kitchen range is located to the left, partially screened by a low, stepped wall. The schoolroom wing has a pointed window with a sill band, featuring 4 trefoil-headed lights and a plate-traced quatrefoil above. A porch with a lean-to roof fills the space between the stair turret and the right-hand wing, with a board door and fixed lights on either side. A 20th-century single-storey flat-roof brick extension is present on the right.

The east elevation has a pointed door with original hinges and latch, stepped down to a string course. A central pointed window contains 4 lights with quatrefoil plate tracery.

The north elevation shows the schoolmaster's house to the right and the schoolroom to the left. The schoolmaster’s house features a two-story gabled wing to the left and a single-story range to the right; windows have trefoil-headed lights, with stiff leaf capitals to colonette mullions on the wing. A single-story extension adjoins the schoolmaster’s house. The schoolroom has two windows, one of 4 lights to the left of centre and another of 2 lights to the right.

Inside, the schoolroom has an arch-braced collar roof with a king post supporting a plank ridge and purlins. Internal doors have decorative wrought iron hinges, and the front door retains its original latch. This is a notable building, being an early example of Street’s use of polychrome brickwork.