The Old School House And Attached School And Walls

The Old School House, now a house, is a schoolhouse built in the mid-18th century, with a school added around 1840. It is constructed from dressed and coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof with symmetrical brick end stacks. The building has a central-staircase plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a symmetrical five-window range. A segmental brick arch with a keystone sits above a late 19th-century plank door. The ground floor has re-used 17th-century two-light stone-mullioned chamfered windows, while the first floor features mid-19th-century two-light windows with gauged brick flat arches above them. There is a flushed brick storey band and dentilled brick eaves, along with gabled roof dormers that contain 19th-century two-light casements. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase and fireplace, along with cased beams.

To the rear left is a one-storey school built around 1840 using similar materials, which has a five-window range with segmental brick arches over two plank doors and two-light stone-mullioned cavetto-moulded windows. Walls extend from the back of the school to the front, featuring an iron gate at the entrance. Historically, the 17th-century windows were likely taken from the Old Manor near Kingston House. The school was established by John Blandy in 1736 to educate 14 local boys, which increased to 20 in 1790, teaching navigation and mathematics.