Former Boys School And Old School House

The former Boys School and Old School House, built in 1856 for William Gibbs of Barrow Gurney, is now disused. It features coursed rubble with freestone dressings and a slate roof characterized by coped raised verges and finials, along with rubble and ashlar stacks. Designed in a free Tudor Gothic style, the school room on the south side has two bays and includes a gabled projecting porch with angle buttresses. The porch has a plank door with strap hinges and a moulded surround with a 4-centred head. To the left of the porch is a three-light cross window with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, while to the right is a single-storey section with a six-light king-mullion window. The south-east gable end features angle buttresses and a four-light cross window with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, topped by a square dripmould with carved head stops and a pierced quatrefoil light above. The school house, located to the north-west, projects as a gabled cross wing and is two storeys high. It has a 1:2:1 light bay window with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, a pierced parapet, and a continuous string course over the ground floor. There is a projecting section to the right with a plank door in a moulded surround featuring a 4-centred head. The symmetrical north-west elevation has three bays, with the centre bay advanced and each bay topped by a steep coped gable. The ground floor has three-light cross windows, while the first floor features two-light casements.