School And Almshouses

The building comprises a village school and attached almshouses, constructed in 1865 of red brick with ashlar dressings and banded plain tile roofs. The school is situated to the left and has an L-shaped layout, incorporating a left cross wing and a three-window main range. The cross wing features a pointed two-light window with plate tracery. There is a chimney in the angle to the main range, which has three-light windows with shouldered heads and mullions. A buttress is located to the left of the central window, and a truncated external stack is on the right. A Gothic timber bellcote with a leaded square spirelet sits at the east end.

A low link connects the school to a near-symmetrical range of almshouses, with a schoolteacher's house adjoining the school. This range is single-storey, with projecting gabled two-storey cross wings at each end. Originally, there were ornamental moulded brick chimneys, of which one group of four shafts remains on the ridge of the left cross wing, and two two-shaft stacks on the ridge of the centre. The right cross wing has north end and east side stacks with rebuilt shafts. Each cross wing has a ground floor three-light and a first floor two-light stone mullion window, all with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. The left cross wing's east gable rises through the roof of the centre range, forming the main asymmetrical element. The centre roof sweeps low over a ten-bay verandah supported by timber posts.

To the left of the verandah is a door and a two-light mullion window, belonging to the two-storey left cross wing. A sequence of four almshouses follows, with a door and a window each, arranged in the pattern DWWDDWWD (Door, Window, Window, Door, Door, Window, Window, Door). The windows in the almshouses are twentieth-century metal replacements for original two-light mullions. A door is situated in the side wall of the right cross wing.