The Old School

The Old School is a board school built in 1876, now serving as retail premises. It is constructed from killas rubble with dressed freestone used for the quoins, copings, sills, jambstones, mullions, arches, and bellcote. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and features coped gables, along with a steep pyramidal stone roof on the bellcote. There are two slender brick axial chimneys positioned over the cross walls.

The building has a central school room layout with an entrance lobby on the left (north) side, accessed through a projecting bellcote. There are classrooms at each end in cross wings, which have projecting gable ends facing the front (west). The design is in the Gothic style and is a single storey. The nearly symmetrical west front features a plinth that is unbalanced by the bell tower. The schoolroom has a three-window arrangement, with a taller central window that rises to a gabled dormer, which has stepped cusped lights (the lower part was removed in the 20th century to create a doorway). The flanking windows are two-light with shouldered heads.

Access to the building is through a tall pointed arched doorway leading to a porch on the left of the schoolroom, topped by the bellcote. The bellcote has three lights on each side and a cornice below a squat stone spire adorned with crockets near the apex. The identical projecting coped gables of the cross wings on the far left and right each feature a stepped three-light window with trefoil-headed lights and transoms between the mullions. Some 20th-century render has been applied to the gables. The south wall includes an inscribed plaque set within a pointed arched niche, with a pointed arched doorway and the original door to the right.

Inside, the space is very simple but retains the original scissor-braced pine roof structure. Despite recent alterations, the building still showcases many Gothic style features, including the prominent bellcote.