Capel County Primary School, Including Boundary Wall To The South

School and former masters house, circa 1870–80. Flemish bond brick with decorative bands of black brick and buff-coloured sandstone ashlar detail, brick stacks and chimneyshafts, and red tile roof.

The building comprises a long block set back from the road and facing south-south-east. In the centre stands the former masters house, taller than the school blocks on either side, with a T-plan. The main block contains two rooms, each with a gable-end stack backing onto the school blocks beyond. A front doorway to the left has a stair rising from the entrance hall. A lower one-room parlour block projects forward at right angles at the right side and is heated by a stack backing onto the main block. On each side are the school blocks, the left (west) one a little shorter than the right one. Each has a one-room front wing—the left one at the end, the right one a bay short of that end. Both school blocks have an axial stack where the front wing roof meets the main block. The masters house is two storeys; the school blocks are single storey with various circa 1970 extensions to the rear.

The exterior displays High Victorian Gothic style. The front elevation is not entirely symmetrical and contains a 1:2:3:2:1:1 window arrangement. The gable-end fronts of the front wings each contain a tall stone arch-headed and transomed window with plate tracery. A stone string course runs across the whole front, rising to the sill of these windows and interrupting a band of black brick. Diagonal buttresses support the gables, with purlins carried on shaped timber brackets. The front of each school main block has stone shoulder-headed lights: two 2-light windows to the left of the former masters house, separated by a buttress, and two 3-light windows to the right with another 2-light window at the end beyond the front wing. The doorway to the left block is positioned next to the masters house and forms a shouldered pointed arch in stone. The doorway to the right block opens into a lean-to alongside the front wing at that end. All doorways contain original plank doors with ornate Gothick-style strap hinges.

The centre bay of the masters house projects forward and has a ground floor bay window and first floor oriel, both on shaped timber brackets. Both windows feature timber mullion-and-transom framing. The gable above has bargeboards supported by pairs of shaped timber brackets. To the left, flush with the main school, is a doorway formed as a stone shoulder-headed arch with slit windows above lighting the stairs. To the right, a ground floor shoulder-headed arch contains a mullion-and-transom window, and the first floor casements above feature a gabled half dormer. The eaves carry a cornice of cogged brick, with similar cornices to the chimneyshafts. The tall gabled roof is gable-ended; each end contains a tall arch-headed stone window with plainer tracery than those at the front. Towards the left end a timber bellcote rises from the ridge with a tall spire-like roof.

Along the front of the property is a low brick boundary wall with a brick dentil cornice and weathered coping, contemporary with the school. Square section gate posts in the same style have pyramid caps. The left gate post in front of the former masters house includes a Victorian post box.

The interior was not inspected.