Felbridge County Primary School

Felbridge County Primary School is a school building that dates back to 1783, founded by James Evelyn, and was extended in 1934. The structure is made of Flemish bond red brick with some burnt headers on the ground floor, while the first floor features a tile-hung timber frame. It has a plain tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends and a brick axial stack.

The building has a three-room lobby entrance plan, with the former kitchen located at the center and a small teacher's parlour on the right, both heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack that forms the entrance lobby at the front. The left-hand room was originally the classroom, which is now used as a kitchen. There are three rooms on the first floor. A 20th-century stair wing at the back likely replaces the original stair outshut and dates from around 1934 when a large extension was added to the left (west).

The school is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window southeast front. The ground floor features cambered arch window openings, including two three-light leaded-pane casements on the left and a 12-pane sash on the right. There are three small two-light casements on the first floor. The doorway is located to the right of center and has a 20th-century panelled and glazed door, along with a 20th-century hipped roof open porch. The right-hand (northeast) end has a depressed two-centred arch window with two-light casements that have Y-bars and leaded panes. At the rear, there is a short hipped roof wing and a large extension from 1934 attached on the left, extending to the rear.

Inside, the ground floor central room (originally the kitchen) features a chamfered cross-beam without stops and a large brick fireplace with a big unchamfered timber lintel. The small right-hand room (the parlour) has a 20th-century brick fireplace. The first floor has roughly chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops and an exposed wall-plate, along with a 20th-century staircase and roof structure.

James Evelyn, a descendant of John Evelyn, the Diarist, established the school in a large house at Hedgecourt Common, enclosing 1½ acres around it for use as a school. The school opened on November 4, 1783, accommodating eight boys and four girls.