Kiddington County Primary School and School House

Kiddington County Primary School and School House is a school building dating from 1856, designed for Henry L. Gaskell. Minor alterations and additions to the rear were made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with tooled ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with a half-hipped section to the right. It is built on an irregular plan in a Tudor Gothic style.

The school is to the right, and the schoolhouse is to the left, with one storey and an attic, and two storeys respectively. The schoolhouse features a chamfered plinth and moulded wooden bargeboards with shaped ends and pendant finials. The front of the schoolhouse has two bays, with buttresses to the right and chamfered offsets. It features two gabled semi-dormers with chamfered-coped parapets and chamfered octagonal panels bearing the inscriptions HLG (left-hand) and 1856 (right-hand). It has a three-light chamfered mullioned and transomed stone window, although the right-hand window has been cut down in the 20th century with French casements inserted. The right return front has a porch with a hipped stone roof, diagonal buttresses with chamfered tops, a central chamfered Tudor-arched doorway, and a half-glazed, two-panelled door. A chamfered rectangular window is set into the left return. An external bellcote above has chamfered offsets, a chamfered-arched bell opening with its bell, and a gabled top with coping and a tall wooden finial.

The rear features a pair of gabled semi-dormers with three-light chamfered mullioned and transomed stone windows, and a central truncated external lateral stone stack with chamfered offsets. The schoolhouse has a one-storey and attic section to the left and a projecting two-storey wing to the right. A lateral stone stack with chamfered offsets and two octagonal stone shafts, with moulded caps and bases, stands to the right. The windows are mostly one-over-one, with two- and three-light chamfered mullioned stone windows, with small-paned wooden casements. A gabled semi-dormer is on the left, and a ground-floor ashlar canted bay with a hipped roof, featuring a 1:2:1 arrangement of lights, is on the right. A carved shield in a recessed rectangular panel in the apex of the right-hand gable displays a hand holding an anchor, with the inscription “SPES”. Chamfered rectangular windows are set into the returns of the wing. An entrance in the right-hand return has a 19th-century neo-Tudor boarded door within a chamfered Tudor arch with stops. A gabled porch has a hollow-chamfered Tudor archway with panelled spandrels and an ovolo-moulded outer square surround. A gabled wing projects from the rear. The interiors were not inspected.