Wroxall Village School And School House

This is a late 19th-century school and attached master’s house, dated 1863, with extensions dating from around the early 20th century and later alterations in the 20th century. The structure is built of blue brick with stone and polychrome red and yellow brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof with gabled ends and alternating red and yellow brick corbelled eaves. There is a brick axial stack to the house, with stone weathered set-offs, alongside a later lateral stack at the rear of the schoolroom.

The building is in a High Victorian Gothic style. The master’s house has a three-bay south-east front where the roof extends over a projecting central bay with a gabled half-dormer and doorway. The flanking bays feature lancet windows on the ground floor and have no windows above. All windows and the doorway are framed by depressed two-centred polychrome brick arches with keystones; the doorways and ground floor windows have cusped arches. Sashes and a plank door with strap hinges are present. A return gable-end on the south-west side includes a two-light window on the ground floor and a brick oriel supported on a moulded stone corbel with carved heraldic beasts at the corners, a stone weathered canopy, and a dated keystone. Polychrome brickwork is employed with thin red brick bands also visible, continuing around the schoolroom. The south-west front of the schoolroom features two small gables over polychrome brick depressed two-centred arch windows, each with three lancets. A doorway to the right is similar to the house’s front door, with a plank door, strap hinges, and a small fanlight. An early 20th-century schoolroom addition to the north-west has a sprocketed hipped roof and five large windows on the north-west elevation, with a central window rising through the eaves with its own hipped roof. A low, flat-roofed extension from the late 20th century is visible at the rear. The interior of the building has not been inspected.