Former National School

This is a former National School, built in the mid-19th century, likely between 1844 and 1855. It served as a village hall from 1932 to 1943 and has been used as a museum since the late 20th century. The building was abandoned along with the rest of Tyneham village in 1943 and was restored in 1994, with repairs carried out in the early 21st century.

The school is constructed from coursed, cut, and squared limestone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof which was re-laid in 2013. The gables have raised stone coping, and there is a rebuilt brick stack to the rear (south). The building has a rectangular footprint and is oriented east to west.

It comprises a three-bay, single-storey classroom, and a single-storey lean-to on the west side with a lower pitched roof. The gables of the classroom have high stone coping with straight kneelers. A chamfered stone plinth and ashlar surrounds are visible on the north and east elevations to the windows. The entrance is within the lean-to, featuring a plank door set within a segmental-headed opening. The north elevation has two three-light mullion windows, and there is a mullion and transom window of three lights in a segmental-headed opening on the east gable wall. While the windows appear to have been reglazed, they lack the original glazing bars which are shown on historic photographs. A broad stone and brick stack rises from the centre of the rear elevation; the brick section appears to have been partially rebuilt. The lean-to has a single window, and the west wall of the lean-to contains three small lights, two of which were blocked when a late 20th-century building housing a generator was constructed adjacent to it. A ventilation grille is set high in the gable.

Inside, an entrance hall/cloakroom with stone flags runs from front to back, leading to the classroom on the left. The classroom is open to the roof and has a concrete floor overlaid with timber floorboards. There is a raised dais at the east end, which may not be original, and simple tongue and groove wainscot which replaced earlier timber panelling. In the south wall is a stone-built fireplace with a stone slate mantelpiece. The school benches are fixed and were likely brought in from elsewhere. The roof structure consists of exposed trusses and purlins, with the principals carried on stone corbels and braced collars with king post and vee struts, and two rows of through purlins.

A modern, stone-built generator house, located on the west side of the school, has been excluded from the listing.