The Old School

The Old School is a building that was originally constructed as a school in 1862 by E Browning. It is now used as offices and features a polychrome Decorated Gothic style. The walls are made of knapped flint with zig-zag bands of yellow gault brick, and the roof is covered with Westmoreland slate, displaying a zig-zag pattern of Welsh slate. The east gable end has a wooden belfry set diagonally, topped with a leaded spike, and features traceried woodwork beneath the gable. The building is single storey, and the Church Street side has three gables, each above a three-light traceried window, with dog tooth eaves. There is a slightly later west extension that includes a plate-traceried, two-light window beneath a smaller gable, along with two similar windows on the return gable end. A round arch window on the west gable has foliate label stops. The rear elevation has been significantly altered.