School House And School Cottage

The building comprises a former school room and school house, now converted into two dwellings. It was originally built in 1670 and subsequently altered in the 19th century, undergoing thorough restoration in August 1986. The construction is of coursed rubble with flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone dressings, and a hipped stone slate roof with stone ridge stacks. The north front is rectangular and features three windows. It includes one chamfered cross-mullion window on the ground floor to the left, a timber casement in an original opening to the right, and two-light chamfered mullions to the upper floor – only the upper window on the right is original. A central round-headed doorway is present with a projecting keystone and abaci, leading to a plank door. A continuous string course incorporates flush relieving arches over the ground floor windows. The east front features renewed cross-mullion and two-light mullion windows, along with a 20th-century plank door in the centre. Inside, a ground floor room in the right-hand portion of School Cottage (on the north front) has a Tudor-arched fireplace with moulded jambs and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops; the interior of School House was entirely remodelled. The building was constructed by Lord Lucas.