The Old School House

The Old School House is a house, originally a schoolhouse, dating from around 1870, with a rear extension added around 1970. It is constructed of exposed local stone and flint rubble, with decorative cream-coloured sandstone ashlar detailing and dressings, and some decorative brick. The stack is of stone rubble and brick, topped with plastered 20th-century brick. The roof is red tile, incorporating bands of scallop-shaped tiles and crested ridge tiles, with an asbestos slate roof to the 20th-century extension.

The house follows a 2-room plan, facing east. A rear lateral stack is located in the left (south) room. A central entrance hall connects the rooms, and a 20th-century service extension projects at right angles to the rear of the right (north) side.

The building is two storeys high and built in a Tudor Gothic style. The symmetrical front has a two-window arrangement around a central doorway, sheltered by an original gabled porch which contains a part-glazed 4-panel door. This is flanked by horned 4-pane sashes with sandstone reveals. A flat stone platband runs along the first floor. The central first-floor window is a round-head casement with Y-tracery glazing bars set within a sandstone architrave, rising into the eaves. The gable above this window, as with the porch gable below, has cusped bargeboards. Sandstone quatrefoil panels flank the first-floor window. Other features include sandstone ashlar quoins, an eaves cornice of red brick set at 45 degrees to the wall, gable-ended roofs, and cusped bargeboards to the left gable, where the windows below are horned 4-pane sashes. The right gable features a first-floor casement and cream-coloured brick surround. The interior was not inspected.