Knypersley School Knypersley School, Attached Archway And Frontage Wall

Knypersley School, built around 1850 by R.C. Hussey, is a school featuring coursed stone construction and blue machine tile roofs. It has verge parapets supported by corbelled kneelers and stone side stacks with twin diagonal capping shafts, as well as square end stacks at the rear. The design is an 'E'-plan derivative inspired by Elizabethan architecture.

The front of the building has two widely spaced, slightly projecting gables that flank a lower single-storey central range, which includes a gabled single-storey porch at the center. The gables feature labelled stone-mullioned and timber-transomed casement windows on the first floor, and three-sided stone-mullioned and transomed bays on the ground floor, all topped with pitched solid block hipped roofs. Flanking the porch are two-light stone-mullion and transom windows, and the round-arch entrance is adorned with a carved banner relief that reads, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart/and lean not into thine own understanding."

To the right rear of the front, there is a pyramidal roofed belfry tower. A lean-to structure is set back to the right, and there is an attached entry arch with an elliptically arched opening in a gabled wall, featuring moulded coping and impost strings. The frontage to Newpool Road is enclosed by a stone wall approximately 1 meter high, with moulded coping on plain piers that have circular pattern cut-outs in between. The school was built under the patronage of the Bateman family.