Old School Cottages

A house and school, dating to 1781 and now used as offices, constructed of limewashed brick. The building has a plain tiled roof with corbelled brick eaves and a part catslide outshut to the rear. There are end stacks and two stacks off-ridge to the rear, right of centre. The front features two small hipped dormers on the left. It is two storeys high with an irregular fenestration of six windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with a smaller central window. There are two panelled doors with moulded, flat projecting hoods, one bay in from each end. A 20th-century extension is present at the rear, but is not listed. A plaque with inscriptions in Latin and Greek is positioned in the centre of the first floor, and below it is another plaque stating that the house and school, along with a building at Leybourne, were built and endowed at the sole expense of the Reverend Edward Holme, Vicar of Birling.