Avonside

A house and school dating to circa 1710, with later alterations and additions. The building is constructed of brick in English bond, with a hipped roof covered in old tile and a brick internal stack. It is of a double-depth plan and demonstrates a Georgian style.

The exterior is two storeys plus an attic, with a three-window range. It features a brick plinth with moulded stone coping, a moulded brick plat band, and a top wooden cornice. Rusticated stone quoins are also present. The ground floor has a window with a timber sill to a four-light transomed casement on the left, and the remains of two blocked windows. A later canted bay window is on the right, likely replacing two windows, evidenced by rubbed brick flat arches, and includes a French window. The first floor has a central window with a stone sill to a three-light transomed casement with leaded glazing, two blocked windows, and windows to each end with timber sills to 12-pane sashes. Two gabled dormers are also visible. The left return has a 20th-century porch and a two-storey addition, with a first-floor window featuring a cross-casement with an iron opening casement. A late 20th-century garage wing is attached. The right return has an ashlar plat band, four windows to each floor, all with 12-pane sashes (ground floor windows paired on either side of a central space), with narrower first-floor windows. One hipped dormer has a two-light small-paned casement to the right of a stack. The rear shows an ashlar plat band, a stair window with a cross-casement, and a two-light casement above. There are 12-pane sashes to each floor on the left side, and a three-light transomed casement to each floor on the right side; the first-floor window is small-paned. A single-storey gabled wing extends to the right end, containing a six-panel door and two windows with 12-pane sashes to the inner return and a projecting end stack, formerly used as a schoolroom.

The interior retains a circa 18th-century dog-leg staircase, a large kitchen fireplace (others having been altered), barrel-vaulted ceilings in the schoolroom, flagged floors, and brick-vaulted cellars.

Historically, the property is believed to have been the home of the village schoolmaster, with approximately six pupils boarding there.