The Old Schoolhouse

The Old Schoolhouse is a schoolmaster's house with an attached school, built in 1888. It is constructed from granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, doorways, windows, kneelers, and copings. The building features a steep dry Delabole slate roof with coped gables and dressed granite chimneys, one located externally at the left-hand gable of the schoolhouse and another axial chimney over the wall between the schoolhouse and the school.

The structure has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-storey schoolhouse on the left, which is two rooms wide and double depth, and a large single-storey schoolroom as a cross wing on the right that projects farther at the rear. All parts of the building are under the same eaves line, with the first-floor rooms of the schoolhouse partly in the roof space.

The entrance and stair hall of the schoolhouse is slightly left of the center of the entrance front. On the left side, there is one room, possibly a study, and two reception rooms behind it. The staircase rises through the middle of the entrance front. The design is in the Tudor baronial style, featuring an irregular gabled entrance front with two first-floor gabled dormer windows on the left and a large gable end of the schoolroom on the right.

The schoolhouse has an irregular arrangement of windows, including a two-light mullioned window on the left and a four-centred arched moulded doorway towards the right, which has a datestone above it. There are also single-light windows, one next to the right-hand jamb of the doorway and a mid-floor stair window that is central to the schoolhouse front. The schoolroom gable features a four-light transommed mullioned window with a square hoodmould, a relieving arch, and a slit ventilator above. The other elevations have windows in a similar style. At the center of the schoolroom front, there is a gabled bellcote. The interior has not been inspected. This building dates to the same year (1888) as Trenoweth House, the former vicarage, and is likely designed by the same architect.