Thakeham First School

Thakeham First School is a former village school, originally built around 1875 in a Gothic style. It features a kitchen extension added to the northeast in 1934 and later extensions from the late 20th century to the north. The original building is constructed of brick, showcasing a pattern of two courses of red brick stretchers with one course of grey brick headers, complemented by black brick drip moulding and tiled roofs, which include three brick chimneystacks.

The original structure consisted of single-storey schoolrooms to the southeast and a two-storey schoolmaster's house to the northwest, although the former house is now part of the school. The house is oriented gable end to the street and has one cambered three-light casement window on each floor. The northwest elevation features two cambered casement windows and a central gabled porch with sidelights and a half-glazed door. There are two chimneystacks, one rendered in cement and the other in brick. The remainder of the southwest front is single-storey with four triple cambered casements and includes a lean-to porch to the left with a currently blocked arched doorway, two buttresses, and a plinth.

The southeast elevation showcases a gable with a large triple pointed arched mullioned and transomed window, along with a small lancet window above. The rear elevation has two gables. The 1934 kitchen extension to the northeast is a single storey with a flat roof, constructed in Sussex bond brickwork and featuring metal casement windows. The late 20th-century additions to the north are not of special interest.

Inside, the large schoolroom has a kingpost type roof and a baronial style brick fireplace, while a separate smaller schoolroom is also present. The former schoolmaster's house retains a plain original staircase and some 19th-century wooden fireplaces.