Springfield Cottage

Springfield Cottage is a house that was formerly a small school and master's house, built in 1875 at the expense of Sir Francis Drake. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble laid in rough courses, with stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a slate roof. The house has a three-room plan facing southeast, where the center and left end rooms served as the master's house. The left end room features a gable-end stack, while the center room has an axial stack that backs onto the entrance hall and main stair. The right end room was the former schoolroom, which is open to the roof. As of 1987, a fourth room was under construction at the left end.

The exterior has an irregular four-window front. The three-window section of the former master's house has original casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass, and one ground floor window features a pattern of 20th-century leaded glass. The schoolroom boasts a full-height timber three-light mullion and transom window with a Gothic pattern of glazing bars. The front doorway, located right of center, contains the original two-panel door made of diagonal planks. The roof is gable-ended, and the right gable end includes another tall timber mullion-and-transom window with plain glazing bars. Above this window is an inscribed Beerstone plaque that commemorates the building of the school in 1875 by Sir Francis Drake. The interior has not been inspected.