The Old School House

The Old School House is a house dating to the late 16th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is timber framed, with some brick facing and rebuilding, and has plain tile roofs. A brick ridge stack and an external end stack are also present. The building has a T-shaped plan, comprising a hall range aligned north-east/south-west and a crosswing to the southwest aligned northwest/southeast. Originally, the entrance was on the northeast side of the hall range. The house was remodelled in the mid-19th century, with the southwest side of the crosswing becoming the entrance front.

The southwest front has two storeys, with a central gabled bay flanked by blind brick half-bays. Glazing bar casements are present on the ground floor to the left and the first floor centrally, with a small window on the ground floor to the right. A 20th-century door is centrally positioned. The timber framing shows close studding with a middle rail to the ground floor, incorporating a long straight tension brace to the right of the door. The first floor exhibits small rectangular panels and diagonal braces forming herringbone patterns. The 19th-century gable has a central vertical strut above the collar and diagonal bracing.

On the northwest front, also with two storeys, are two bays of windows to two bays, with a brick gable of the crosswing to the right and the hall range to the left. Glazing bar casements are visible. The first floor of the hall range has a lower tier of small square panels containing quatrefoils and an upper tier of small rectangular panels containing diagonal bracing.

The southeast front, also two storeys, has irregular fenestration, mainly with glazing bar casements. The hall range is to the right, and the gabled crosswing is to the left. A doorway, originally with a cambered head but now containing a window, is located to the right of centre on the hall range. Other windows are present on the ground floor to the right, the first floor to the right and left, and a window to the ground floor left within a single-storey lean-to extension. The hall range has close studding with a middle rail and short straight braces. The crosswing has windows to the ground floor centre and two small windows to the first floor centre with an external stack on the right.