Kea County Primary School And Playground Walls To West And South

Kea County Primary School, built in 1879, is a board school featuring playground walls to the west and south. The building is constructed from shale rubble with a granite plinth and includes buttress quoins, sills, jambstones, mullions, lintels, arch stones, and gable copings. It has dry Delabole slate roofs with projecting eaves and coped gables on the entrance front. There is an original axial tapered brick chimney located in the middle of the rear wall of the right-hand (south) schoolroom and another midway towards the right-hand end of the left-hand (north) schoolroom. Additionally, there are two later brick chimneys on the front walls, one towards the left and one at the front of the gable end on the left.

The school has a T-shaped plan with the schoolrooms arranged at right angles to each other, plus an entrance porch outshut to the left (north) leading to a lobby at the foot of the T. It is designed in a simple Tudor style and is a single storey. The building features a plinth and weathered buttresses between the windows and at the corners. The west entrance front includes a two-stage plinth lean-to porch on the left, a symmetrical three-window schoolroom in the middle, and a projecting gable of the cross wing of the other schoolroom on the right. All windows have chamfered mullions. The porch has a three-light window and a pointed doorway on the right (south) side wall. The adjoining schoolroom has a four-light window in the middle flanked by two three-light windows. The gable end on the right has a tall four-light window with two transoms and a slightly recessed trefoil-headed date plaque above it, while a smaller two-light window is located at the opposite (east) end. The symmetrical south front features a taller central three-light window with low and high transoms, rising to a dormered roof gable, flanked by two-light windows.

Inside, there is a pointed arched doorway between the schoolrooms, and the original roof structure is hidden by 20th-century ceilings. The playground wall to the west is made of rubble with roughly dressed granite copings, while the wall to the south consists of square, coursed roughly dressed granite with similar copings. The design of the school is simple yet strong and functional, with little alteration since its construction.