Laughern House School

Laughern House School is a former country house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the late 18th century, with 19th and 20th-century alterations that encase a 16th-century house. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features timber-frame construction with brick infill, topped with low hipped slate roofs and tiles on the 16th-century section.

The structure has a shallow U-shape, with the 16th-century timber-frame house filling the U. It stands three storeys tall, with the second floor serving as a built-up attic. The exterior includes a moulded ashlar plinth, a stone-coped parapet, a moulded string course above the first floor, a plain band at the ground floor, and a sill band. The façade consists of five bays, with the central bay being pedimented and faced in ashlar. The windows are sash style: 8 panes on the second floor, 16 panes on the first floor, and 20 panes on the ground floor, the latter featuring stone architraves. The central bay's pediment has a moulded cornice crowning the attic.

On the first floor, there is a tripartite sash window flanked by engaged Ionic columns set within a panel. The ground floor has a pedimented tetrastyle Doric portico with a moulded and dentilled cornice, leading to a door below a 6-pane rectangular fan light, which has pointed heads on the three upper panes, flanked by 10-pane sashes. The door itself is panelled.

Inside, several doorcases remain, featuring broken pediments and dentilled cornices, along with panelled doors. The rear elevation reveals the timber-frame construction, which includes a gabled cross-wing that has been extensively restored in the 19th century. The timber framing is visible in the ceiling of the kitchen on the right side but is not apparent elsewhere inside, and it consists of three square panels high on the exterior.