The Old School House

The Old School House is a building that was originally a schoolhouse, constructed between 1844 and 1845 by J. Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton. It is made of rubble stone and features stone slate roofs with eaves. The building was originally a single-storey schoolroom and includes a distinctive three-stage pyramid-roofed entrance tower on the south side. This tower has raised bands and a ground floor that features a reused medieval double-ogee moulded pointed doorway with a 15th-century plank door. The second stage of the tower has a lancet window, which may also be reused, and there is a bell attached to the top stage.

The schoolroom has raised bands and saddlestones at the gable ends, but the window features, including projected timber oriels on brackets, appear to be 20th-century or renewed. There is a five-light window on the west side with a breaking band and a hipped stone slate hood above, along with three-light windows on each floor at the north end and a three-light window on the upper floor at the south end. The rear wing of the building previously had a reused medieval window, which has now been replaced with a 20th-century mullion window. The reused medieval stonework in the building was sourced from the church at Alderton.