The Old School

The Old School is a school and master's house built around 1870. It is constructed from snecked local grey-coloured limestone, featuring ashlar quoins and cream-coloured sandstone details. The building has grey limestone stacks with sandstone octagonal chimney shafts and a slate roof.

The structure has a T-shaped plan, with the main block, which serves as the school, facing south. The master's house is a two-room plan crosswing with two projecting outer lateral stacks. The school is mostly a single storey but is as tall as the two-storey master's house.

The exterior features a three-window front with double-lancet windows that have transoms. The first-floor window in the gable end of the master's house to the right is similar but includes a quatrefoil light above, creating an Early Decorated plate tracery window. The left gable end has the same arrangement of two ground floor double lancets and a first-floor plate-tracery window. Most windows still contain rectangular panes of leaded glass, although some have been replaced with plate glass. Both the main block and the master's house have gable-ended roofs with shaped kneelers and coping, and the roofs are steeply pitched. A lead lantern topped with a wrought iron weathervane is located over the school. The entrances to both the school and the master's house are at the rear, accessed through a lean-to porch situated at the angles of the wings.

The interior has not been inspected. This relatively unmodernised building is located next to the churchyard and contributes to the unspoilt character of the centre of Hockworthy parish, which includes several other important listed buildings.