The Old School House

The Old School House is a former parish school that was converted into a house around 1840 to 1850, with alterations and extensions made in the 1880s. The building is constructed of flint rubble with red brick dressings and features a clay plain tile roof with coped gable ends topped with small stone fleur-de-lys finials. There is a brick lateral stack at the rear within an outshut.

The original rectangular-plan school has a Tudor Gothic style and includes an entrance porch on the right side of the south front. In the 1880s, the building was modified into a house, adding a one-room plan wing and an outshut at the rear, while the original school room was subdivided and ceiled to create one large room and a smaller room.

The exterior is single-storey and has an asymmetrical south front, featuring two 2-light lattice-pane casements in chamfered brick openings with hoodmoulds. A large gabled porch on the right has a chamfered pointed arch doorway with a hoodmould and a plank door. The west gable-end displays a panel with a shield. At the rear, there is a brick outshut on the left and a rendered gable-ended wing on the right.

Inside, the school room walls are lined and the roof is ceiled in matchboarding. There is a matchboard partition separating the smaller room at the west end. The main room has a lateral fireplace at the rear with a range, while the room in the rear wing features a small cast-iron chimneypiece and plank doors.