Former National School And Old School House

The Former National School and Old School House is a school building and schoolmaster's residence dated 1855. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble with freestone dressings, featuring a slate roof with stone-coped gable ends, while the Old School House has a tile roof. The building has stone lateral and axial stacks with weathered caps and set-offs.

The plan is T-shaped, with the cross-wing on the right (east) projecting and extending to the rear. There are porches on the east side of the cross-wing and on the west end of the main range, with the schoolmaster's house set back on the left (west). The building is designed in the Victorian Gothic style.

The exterior consists of a single-storey school with a three-bay south front. The gable-ended cross-wing on the right features a tall three-light stone window with cusped pointed arch lights set in a pointed arch recess. The main range on the left has two large four-light mullion-transom windows with depressed two-centred arch lights, and a similar window is located in the left return of the cross-wing. Between these windows is a lateral stack with weathered set-offs and a tablet inscribed: "Erected AD 1855 This site and five hundred pounds towards the building were contributed by Miss Davis daughter of ....Davis Esq of S.....". The inscription is only partly legible. On the left end and the right side of the cross-wing, there are stone porches with chamfered depressed two-centred arch doorways featuring ledged doors. Set back on the left is the schoolmaster's house (Old School House), which has chamfered two-light stone mullion windows with relieving arches, two first-floor windows at the eaves with small gables, a central chamfered doorway with a depressed two-centred arch, and a two-light stone window in the left gable end, along with a gable-ended wing at the rear. The interiors have not been inspected.