The Old School

The Old School is a building originally constructed as a school and now serving as a community hall. It was built between 1871 and 1872 and extended from 1887 to 1890, designed by George H. Cox of Birmingham, with alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick with blue brick bands and stone dressings, topped with a clay plain tile roof that features stone coping at the gable ends. It has tall brick lateral stacks with blue brick bands and battered shafts, along with an axial stack at the ridge that has been truncated.

The building has an L-shaped plan, with the original range located to the southeast and the 1887-90 wing to the northwest. It is designed in the Victorian Gothic style, characterized by its polychromatic brickwork. The exterior is single-storey and asymmetrical, with gable-ended wings on either side. The larger left-hand gable features a large 4-light plate-tracery window and a round ventilator above, along with 2 and 3-light stone mullion windows. There are two large lateral stacks at the center, separated by a buttress with weathered set-offs, and small gabled ventilators in the roof pitch. The east gable end has a similar 3-light plate-tracery window with a small round ventilator above. The west side includes a lower wing on the left and a lateral stack on the right, while the left side has the 1887-90 extension, which also features a similar wing and lateral stacks, along with a 20th-century flat roof addition in the angle of the wing.

Inside, some classroom partitions have been removed and suspended ceilings have been added, but the arch-braced roofs on corbels remain visible above.