Box Primary School And School House

Box Primary School and School House is a primary school built between 1874 and 1875 by J. Hicks of Redruth, with an extension added in 1894. The building is constructed from small ashlar blocks banded with rock-faced rubble stone, topped with Bridgwater tiled roofs and crested ridge tiles. It features a single-storey long school range with a two-storey house at the east end, designed in a Gothic style.

The main front is nearly symmetrical, with two projecting wings that have coped gables, which are crocketted near the apex, flanking a recessed center that has a smaller, slightly projected central gable. The central gable includes a three-light window in a pointed frame, with the lights featuring ogee heads. The wings have similar windows flanked by single ogee-headed lights. The voussoirs alternate between ashlar and rock-faced blocks.

To the left of the central gable is a 20th-century main door, while to the right, there is a two-light flat-headed window and a pointed-arched doorway with Y-tracery above it, inscribed 'Girls and Infants' on the lintel. The left wing extends further left and features a similar doorway inscribed 'Boys Entrance' at the base of a thin ashlar clock tower, which rises to a gabled clock face adorned with clasping square pinnacles and an ashlar pyramid roof topped with two finials. The extension to the left includes a two-light flat-headed window and a west gable. Behind, there is a taller gabled parallel wing.

At the right end is the School House, which has a pointed-arched door and a window above it to the left of a two-storey canted bay with a steep hipped roof that continues as a cross wing to the coped north gable.