The Old Schoolhouse And Old School Adjoining To North West

The Old Schoolhouse and the adjoining Old School, located on the south-west side of Reading Road in Basildon, are buildings in a neo-Gothic style, dated 1858. The schoolhouse, situated to the left, is constructed of flint with stone dressings, featuring a plinth and lacing courses. It has a half hipped patterned tile roof with ridge cresting, and two stacks located at the rear, one on the left and one on the right. The schoolhouse also includes two gabled dormers with 2-light diamond leaded casements. To the right, there is a half hipped cross wing that projects, with lower eaves, a ridge stack, and a gabled dormer on the left-hand return front that has a 2-light diamond leaded casement. The building is 1½ storeys tall and features a 2-arched light diamond leaded casement to the left and an arched diamond leaded casement to the right, flanking an off-centre arched boarded door to the right, which has a hoodmould and carved stops. There is also a canted bay with mullioned and transomed windows and a tile roof in the cross wing to the right, with 2-arched light diamond leaded casements in the gable end above.

The school, located to the right, is also made of flint with stone dressings, a plinth, lacing courses, and a stone coped parapeted gable end on the right. It features a patterned tile roof with ridge cresting, two square ridge lights with pyramidal caps, and three gabled dormers with 2-light casements. The roof extends to the right over the gable end, forming a gabled timber bellcote. This building is one storey tall and consists of four bays with paired cusped windows. There is a chamfered arched doorway to the left with a boarded door and a gabled timber porch on a flint and stone base. The north-west front has paired transomed cusped windows flanking a central buttress, with a circular sexafoil window in the gable end above. Additionally, there is a small gabled entrance lobby projecting to the right, which has a boarded door and an arched overlight to the north-east, along with a small circular window with a carved surround in the gable end to the north-west.