The Old School House

The Old School House is a former school house built in 1873, funded by Robert Emlyn Lofft of Troston Hall. It is designed in a Gothic style to complement the nearby village school. The building is single storey and has a half-H plan, with two wings extending to the rear and slightly projecting in front. It is constructed of brick, featuring four courses of red bricks alternating with one course of black-faced bricks, all with moulded faces. The rusticated quoins and window surrounds are made of plain black-faced bricks, and the gables have high brick copings. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, incorporating bands of fishscale tiles and fluted ridge tiles.

Inside, there are three chimney stacks; two on the front range each have one shaft of moulded brick with a plain shaft behind. The front facade includes two 2-light casement windows set in rectangular surrounds of chamfered brick, along with a small circular window in the gable above. However, both the circular windows and the north casement window have been blocked with flush panels made of random knapped flint. Flint panels are also present on each side of the central doorway, which features a 20th-century half-glazed door flanked by two small windows.