Blakeney Church of England Primary School, boundary walls, gates and associated outbuildings

Blakeney Church of England Primary School is a listed building comprising the main school structure, boundary walls, gates and associated outbuildings.

The original school was built in 1825 using local flint with red brick detailing, including a dentilled eaves course, quoins, and window and door surrounds. Extensions were added in 1894 (constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond), around 1970, and around 2010. The roofs throughout have replacement pantile covering.

The 1825 school forms a rectangular block, a seven-bay structure with a hipped roof. The south elevation contains six window bays with nine-light windows: three bottom-hung casement windows to the top row, three fixed windows to the middle row, and three bottom-hung casement windows to the bottom row. The northernmost bay of the south elevation has a round-arched door opening with red brick voussoirs and a timber battened door. The east gable wall, which forms part of the west boundary of the graveyard of St Nicholas' Church, contains a three-light replacement uPVC window. The west elevation comprises two bays with a nine-light casement window to the south and a six-light casement window to the north. A single-storey porch extends to the east, gabled to the east elevation.

The 1894 extension is perpendicular to the centre of the north elevation and gabled to the north. Its north elevation contains two bays: a twelve-light casement window to the west and a six-light casement window over a replacement double-leaf glazed door to the east. A half-dormer with stepped gable and four-light casement window projects from the west elevation.

Extensions built around 1970 and around 2010 have been added to the north-east and north-west corners respectively. These later extensions do not contribute to the special interest of the principal building.

The interior of the 1825 building comprises two large classrooms divided by a replacement folding partition. The original roof structure survives intact but is concealed by a lowered ceiling of acoustic tiles. Both classrooms retain timber wainscot panelling and a dado rail, with raised and fielded timber panelled doors and two eight-over-eight pane timber sash windows to the internal corridor. The west classroom contains a kitchen accessed by a central half-glazed door, and a store room to the south. The east classroom has been partitioned to create an activity room with access to the south porch, and the former porch now serves as a staff room. An internal corridor separates the 1825 classrooms from the 1894 extension, and the contrast between the flint wall of the 1825 building and the smoother brick of the 1894 extension clearly shows the two phases of development.

The 1894 extension retains its original roof structure beneath a suspended ceiling of acoustic tiles. Original surviving features include wainscot panelling, a raised and fielded timber panelled door and two eight-over-eight pane timber sash windows to the internal corridor. A concealed and redundant fireplace survives to the centre of the east wall.

The site is bounded by an original boundary wall to the west along Wiveton Road, constructed of local flint with red brick piers. Two wrought-iron gates provide access to Wiveton Road: one double-leaf gate and one pedestrian gate. The east boundary features a high retaining wall shared with St Nicholas' Church graveyard, built of local flint with four courses of red brick coping.

A single-storey former toilet block and boiler room survive to the north of the playground and are now used as storage and boiler room.