St Aubyns School

St Aubyn's School is a small country house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the late 18th century and was remodeled and extended in the early 19th century, with further alterations to the entrance front in the late 20th century. The building features rendered or stuccoed walls and dry slate roofs, which are hipped behind a moulded parapet on the main block and gabled on the service wing, along with rendered stacks. The layout is a double-depth plan with a central stair hall and a service wing at the rear left.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window entrance front on the south elevation. This front features four Tuscan columns of a former porch that projects forward in front of the central bays. There are shallow cambered arches over early 19th-century hornless sash windows with thin glazing bars and margin panes. The first floor has shaped shutter boxes for three openings and louvered shutters for three others. A mid-floor string course runs across the principal garden front, which has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement with a projecting central bay, similar sashes, and central French windows on the ground floor. The service wing to the left of the entrance front has a gabled two-window range with original 12-pane sashes and a pyramidal-roofed louvered bellcote.

Inside, the building retains many fine original features, including an open-well staircase with a ramped mahogany handrail over stick balusters on an open string, complete with a wreathed newel. There are oak panelled doors within moulded architraves, moulded cornices in the reception rooms, and the left-hand room of the garden front features a dentilled cornice along with several good chimneypieces.

Historically, the building was known as Howden Court and is depicted on a map from 1801.