Chawleigh Village School And Old School House

The building comprises a village school and a former school house, situated on the site of a former church house. Constructed around 1850, with a late 19th-century extension, it is built of local mudstone rubble, roughly cut and laid in courses. Stone stacks are present, most having had their shafts removed, except for two with 20th-century brick chimney shafts. The roof is slate.

The original range faces away from the churchyard. It incorporates a three-room plan house to the right (east) and the school to the left. A rear corner stack is located at the right end of the house, with other disused axial stacks also present. Three of the first-floor rooms are served by projecting front lateral stacks. The school features a late 19th-century single-storey crosswing extension. The main block is two storeys high and displays a restrained Jacobean style. The front façade is nearly symmetrical, featuring seven windows with three-light mullion-and-upper-transom casements, incorporating cast iron glazing bars holding hexagonal panes of glass. All windows have flat-headed embrasures with relieving arches of shaped stones. A centre-left ground floor window is fitted with 20th-century leaded glass replicating the originals. The centre-right ground floor window has been replaced with a 20th-century door. A panelled door sits within a stone gabled porch with a two-centred outer arch, located to the right of the centre of the house. A large gabled porch is positioned to the left of the centre of the school. The front door has a large overlight glazed in a manner matching the windows. First-floor windows are punctuated by projecting chimney stacks which rest on plain corbels either side of a small central arch. The end walls extend above the eaves as flat-topped parapets, blending into the gable ends of the roof; the left parapet is surmounted by a small brick bellcote. The right end wall is blind, except for a 20th-century replacement casement. The rear elevation is irregular, with four first-floor and five ground-floor windows resembling those on the front. The late 19th-century school extension comprises a gable-ended block with a small gable-ended entrance lobby projecting from the right side of the front gable. The front of the school room and lobby have stone mullion-and-transom windows with Tudor arched heads, of three and two lights respectively, with minimal glazing bars. A slatted ventilator is located on the main gable. The rear gable features a plain two-light window. The interior has not been inspected. The building is situated near the church, within a group of attractive listed buildings.