Charles Kingsley'S Primary School

Charles Kingsley's Primary School is a school built in 1853, originally as a National school, with extensions added in 1901 and later in the 20th century. The building is made of red brick, partly covered with tiles and features applied timber-framing with rendered panels. It has plain tile roofs with gabled ends and brick stacks.

The original 1853 school consists of a large school room with the master's house located on the right (south). A cross-wing school room was added in 1901 on the left (north). Later 20th-century single-storey classrooms were added at the rear (east), but these are not included in the listing. The building is designed in a Victorian Picturesque style.

The exterior features a single-storey school and a one-storey and attic master's house. The school on the left showcases applied timber-framing with a three-bay front, a band of multi-pane windows under the eaves, and a central bay with timber raking buttresses leading up to a large glazed gabled bay with a tile-hung gable. There is a large gabled timber-framed porch on the right, while the master's house projects on the right with a twin tile-hung gabled front, bands of scalloped tiles, and casement windows with glazing bars. The right (south) end has a small canted bay and a gabled rear (east). The 1901 cross-wing extension, known as the Kingsley Memorial Room, is on the left (north) and features applied timber-framing with roughcast panels, a gabled front with a gabled brick porch, and large windows above with similar windows under twin gables on the left (north) return.

Inside, the 1853 school room has an open three-bay timber roof with arch-braced trusses on brackets, curved struts above the collars, and exposed purlins and common-rafters. There is a fireplace in the lateral stack at the back. The master's house includes a simple stick-baluster staircase, chimneypieces, and panelled and plank doors. The 1901 school room extension has a carved wooden plaque inscribed with 'Kingsley Memorial Room, Easter 1901; T. Chipchase sc'.

The school is named after Charles Kingsley, who served as the rector at Eversley.