Former Village School and Rosalind's Cottage

The building comprises a former village school and schoolmaster's house, dated 1853 as a National School and designed by E W Stephens of Maidstone. The school is constructed of random dressed stone with stock brick dressings and quoins, while the roof is tiled with plain and fish-scaled tiles, featuring stacks behind the ridge to the right and in the centre. Ventilation funnels are situated at each end of the school block. The schoolmaster’s house, set at a right angle to the school block, has a higher ridge, with a large, shallow gabled projection masking the change in level. This projection features decorative barge boards, a pendant, and a finial. Flanking the projection are pairs of gabled hoods projecting from the roof over windows, all with decorative barge boards and finials, and wooden trusses within the flanking gables. The schoolhouse is one and a half storeys high, while the gabled projection and the block to the left are one storey in height. A large eight-light pointed-arched window with a transom and mullions spans four bays to the left, with smaller arched windows in the projection and larger six-light transom and mullion windows either side. A date stone marked "1853" is positioned under the gable of the projection. A wooden semi-dormer oriel, supported by four large brackets, is located at the extreme right. The original depressed arched doorway to the schoolmaster’s house features a boarded door with three small inset panes of glass at its apex. The south front has gabled projections at either end, with gabled semi-dormers between. The ground floor has five bays, with a sloping weather porch, supported on brackets, in the second bay from the right. Large wings extend from the rear of both frontages. The schoolmaster's house was renamed Rosalind's Cottage by a former occupant, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike.