Former National School and attached yard wall and railings

This is a former National School, dating to 1865, located in Liskeard. It is built of slatestone rubble with areas of slate hanging, featuring steep dry Delabole slate roofs and large lateral brick stacks, with alternating plain and crested ridge tiles. The building has an irregular E-shaped plan and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The south front is nearly symmetrical, with a 1:2:1:2:1 bay arrangement. It features original windows, including three-light traceried windows to projecting gable-ended bays, three stepped lancets to a projecting central half-hipped lobby wing, and cross windows with a single light to the basement at the west end. A central inscription reads: "THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE." A three-light window is set back on the far right. The right-hand return of the lobby wing has a pointed entrance doorway with an original planked door.

The east entrance front is irregular with a pointed central doorway containing an original planked door and large scrolled iron strap hinges. A gable is set back to the right, featuring centrale quatrefoil above cinquefoil-traceried two-light windows, with the inscription "YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD BY FAITH IN JESUS". The west front is also irregular, with a left-hand gable containing three shouldered lights above two carriage doorways within pointed arches, two lancets on the right, and an enlarged right-hand lancet that forms a doorway. The inscription "LET NO CORRUPT COMMUNICATION PROCEED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH" is centrally positioned. The rear elevation has four windows, with the inscription "THOU GOD BLESS ME" above centrally-placed windows. A basement doorway is on the right-hand side, with a two-light window to its left and a mid-floor opening to its right.

The interior retains most original features, including panelled doors, exposed straight arch braces to the roof structure, and some folding screens, which are rare surviving examples.

To the left of the front, a yard wall with granite copings to iron railings and a central gateway leads down nine granite steps.

The school is an architecturally competent example, demonstrating influences from Ecclesiological designs by architects such as William White or George Edmund Street.