Coomberry St Anthony

Coomberry and St Anthony are a pair of detached houses that were originally used as a school. They were built in the early 19th century and extended in the mid-19th century. The exterior features incised stucco on rubble, with some slate hanging on the right wing, and a hipped roof made of rag slate and asbestos slate on the rear wing of No. 2. The overall shape of the building is an irregular L.

The houses are two storeys tall, with a basement in the right wing of No. 3. The front is symmetrical with three windows, plus a two-window range wing that is set back on the right. The windows are 20th-century twelve-pane horned sashes, and there is a 20th-century door with an overlight. The wing has two original hornless sashes with glazing bars, a latticed cellar window, and an old ledged door. The rear features an original round-arched stair sash with a fanlight head.

The left-hand return shows the three-window front of No. 2, which has original 12-pane hornless sashes and one larger late 19th-century window, all set within moulded architraves with hoods and sill brackets. There is an original but relocated porch with reeded columns on granite plinths and a moulded entablature.

Inside, there is an original open-well open-string staircase with reeded stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, along with panelled doors, window shutters, and some panelled reveals. The ceilings have moulded cornices, and one ceiling in No. 2 features an anthemion band, likely from the mid-19th century, as well as a marble chimneypiece with consoles.

Historically, there was a schoolroom at Coomberry before 1850, and from 1850 to 1920, St Anthony operated as a dame school.