Cranbrook School House And Walls To South

Cranbrook School House, now the Headmaster's House, was built in 1727. It is constructed of red brick on a red brick plinth and features a coved wooden cornice along the parapet with a raised panel. The building has a plain tiled hipped roof with two stacks along the ridge and three dormers with segmental pediments. It stands three storeys high with an attic and has seven bays, including slight projections at each end. The windows have ganged segment heads and glazing bar sashes, with those on the second floor being half the depth of those below. There are blocked windows in the centre of the first and second floors.

A deep loggia occupies the central three bays of the ground floor, with a wall above that rests on an entablature supported by two Doric columns, flanked by additional Doric columns at the outer corners. The frieze above the columns features triglyphs. There are doorways at both ends of the loggia and in the centre, which are flanked by flat-headed glazing bar sashes. The central doorway is surrounded by fluted Doric pilasters and a triglyphed entablature. A plaque from Invicta Fire Insurance is located in the central first floor window.

At the rear, there is a blue and red brick chequer wing to the left, with 19th-century additions in the centre, and a 19th-century wing to the right that has a 19th-century roof structure. The front of the school house is enclosed by red brick walls that are 30 yards long, with two ramped steps leading down on each side. The garden is bordered by low walls, four feet high, topped with diagonal railings, each with flanking piers, two intertwining piers, and central gate-piers. The wooden gate has slats above to resemble the railings.

Inside, there is a stair on four levels with a rectangular open well, twined balusters, a flat handrail, square newel posts, corniced tread-ends, and curved cheek-pieces.