Cranfield Primary School And Schoolhouse

Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse is a building constructed in 1862 by T.C. Hine for the Rev. G. G. Harter. The structure is made of snecked limestone with ashlar dressings and features clay tile roofs, showcasing a loosely Gothic style. The buildings are arranged around three sides of a courtyard, which opens towards the road.

The schoolhouse forms the left-hand wing and is two storeys high, while the school consists of a two-storeyed wing at the rear and a single-storeyed wing on the right-hand side. A three-storeyed octagonal tower with a conical roof is positioned at the angle between the two wings of the school.

The road-facing gable of the schoolhouse features a ground floor canted bay, paired single lights on the first floor, and a small trefoil window in the attic. A two-storeyed gabled porch projects from the courtyard side, with an open ground floor that includes a central archway and flanking lights, all adorned with trefoiled arches and foliate capitals supported by columns made of pink stone. Most of the windows in the schoolhouse have paired trefoiled lights.

The rear block of the school has three pointed-arched doorways and windows with two and three lights. The tower includes a pointed-arched two-light window with a cinquefoil in the head on the first floor, and cusped rose windows at the top. Other windows on the tower are single lights. The right-hand block's gable end features a three-light pointed-arched window with a cusped rose window in the head, a polychrome head, and foliate stops to the dripstone. There is also a small quatrefoil in the attic, and like the schoolhouse, most windows are trefoiled lights grouped in twos and threes. The rear block has a carved panel that reads "Deo et Ecclesiae," and the right-hand gable has a small panel with the initials G.G.H. The gables are stone-coped and include ornamental gablets, with the gable of the schoolhouse topped by an ornate finial.