Blake House Blake School

Blake House, also known as Blake School, is a 17th-century tithe barn that has been remodeled as a school around 1850-1860. The schoolhouse at the front features squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, a gabled stone slate roof, and brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window range. A bracketed flat hood is positioned over a beaded four-panelled door that includes an overlight. Stone lintels are present above six-pane sash windows. To the left, there is a 20th-century two-storey bay. The school section at the rear is constructed from similar materials and is designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring a quatrefoil window to the right and 20th-century extensions to the left. The rear gable includes a quatrefoil light above a four-light window with intersecting tracery. A right-angle wing at the rear right has a hood mould, a pointed chamfered doorway, and a two-light window with cinquefoil heads. Inside, the former barn has a five-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins. The building is included for its group value.