The Old School House

The Old School House is a timber-framed house dating from the late 15th century, with substantial internal remodelling in the 17th century, minor alterations in the 18th century, and an extension built in the early 19th century. It was restored around 1980. A mid-19th century schoolroom is attached. The house is constructed with timber framing, featuring large, almost square panels with curved braces and brick infill, and has a red brick schoolroom. Both buildings are roofed with plain tiles, and have brick integral end stacks.

The house has a T-shaped plan. The single-bay former open hall runs east-west, facing north, and is now a lobby-entry plan, fully floored. A single-bay parlour wing runs north-south. An 19th-century kitchen wing extends from the south side of the hall range. The schoolroom is attached to the west end of the hall range and aligned with it. The house has two storeys, with a gabled crosswing to the left and a hall range to the right. It features a 1:1 window arrangement; the hall range has C18 leaded glazing bar casements, and a C20 door to the right. The roof is a queen strut truss design with one pair of trenched purlins.

The schoolroom is a single-storey building with a timber arcade of five bays on a short brick wall to the left, and a blind gabled wing to the right. The south elevation shows the house to the right, the hall range to the left, and a C19 gabled kitchen wing to the right-hand side of the hall range. The hall range and kitchen wing have leaded glazing bar casements, while the crosswing has two C20 casements to the ground floor and one to the first floor. The schoolroom has eaves banding, pilaster buttresses to each end and to the left of centre, and three French casements with segmental heads and cast iron glazing bars to the right; a similar casement is positioned to the left.

Inside the hall range, there is an inserted spine beam and joists with ogee stopped chamfers. The west end of the spine beam is supported by the bressumer of a large open fireplace. The crosswing features a cross beam with a wide chamfer. To the north, the joists are stopped and chamfered, while to the south they are simply chamfered, a feature that may indicate the ground floor of the crosswing was originally partitioned along the line of the cross beam. The pattern of the joists suggests the staircase was originally located in the north-east corner of the crosswing prior to the remodelling of the open hall.