Lady Seaward Church Of England Primary School

The Lady Seaward Church of England Primary School, dated 1859, is a school with a teacher's house attached, now used as additional classrooms. It is constructed of random rubble limestone with Beer stone dressings, featuring gabled-end roofs covered in plain and scalloped tiles arranged in patterns, with crested ridge tiles and heavily coped gable ends. The building follows an L-shaped plan, comprising the main school room (facing north-east), the teacher's house (facing south-east), an additional teaching room in the inner angle, and a perimeter wall enclosing a small rear yard with an entrance facing north-west. Privies form the north-west angle.

The main school room has a single-storeyed hall which now features a false ceiling. The north-east front has a two-window range with half dormers containing two-light casement windows with leaded glass and hood moulds, each displaying a shield set in a diamond on the dormer gable walls. A legend reading “for Heaven and for Earth” is placed between the dormers. A pentice-roofed loggia, supported by a timber arcade of trefoil head arches on a brick plinth, is present below, leading to a gabled porch with wavy bargeboarding. An entrance has a depressed arch. A 20th-century skylight has been added to the roof between the dormers. The loggia extends to the left-hand elevation, where another gabled porch is centrally positioned, alongside a two-light pointed window; a two-light window is above, with a hood mould, and a lancet window to the gable wall. The right-hand elevation presents a tripartite stone mullioned window with a transom, and two lancets above, each under a hood mould. A belcote sits at the gable apex, supported by an angel corbel.

The teacher's house, on the south-east front, is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front, and dormers to the main school room. A central gabled porch is flanked by two-light casement windows. A Tudor-style stack is located in the left-hand end. The rear of the building is an informal arrangement featuring two rear wings to the house, an external lateral stack with a coped set-off to the main schoolroom, and a separate gabled-end latrine block.

The interior school hall retains its original roof structure, featuring arched brace, collar, and king-post construction. The school is a carefully designed composition with clearly distinguished elements and remains in a remarkably unaltered state of preservation.