Collaton St Mary School

Collaton St Mary School is a school building constructed around 1866, likely designed by JW Rowell of Newton Abbot, who also designed the nearby parish church. The building has undergone some 20th-century alterations.

It is made from local red snecked breccia and features a slate roof with stacks that have red breccia shafts and two retaining stone caps, topped with crested ridge tiles. The school has a T-plan layout, with the main block containing two classrooms heated by gable end stacks and an original entrance, along with a heated rear wing that has an L-shaped roof plan.

The exterior is a single storey with an asymmetrical three-window front. It includes a gabled projecting porch with a round-headed shouldered outer doorway and a blind trefoil carved in the gable. There are two windows to the right and one to the left, which are three- and four-light windows with stone mullions and shoulder-headed lights. A probably 20th-century secondary door has been inserted to the right of the porch. The rear wing retains two original windows in the same style as those on the front, while there are also 20th-century additions at the west end and in the northeast corner.

Inside, the space is plain, but the original open roof trusses are still visible, although partly concealed by an inserted ceiling. The school was part of a group of buildings promoted by the Reverend John Roughton Hogg, who commissioned the church built by Rowell in 1867 in memory of his daughter, Mary Hogg. It served as a church school until 1930, when it became a junior school and was granted aided status in 1952.