Sunday School Cottage Shown On Os Map As Sunday School House

This is a Sunday school, built in 1844 and later converted into a cottage, with a rear addition made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of volcanic trap ashlar, whitewashed and rendered on the gable ends, with freestone dressings and a slate roof. A projecting brick stack stands on the right-hand end, and remnants remain of a similar stack that has been dismantled on the left.

Originally a single-story building rectangular in plan, it was divided into two rooms with a central entrance. The conversion to a cottage involved adding a floor, removing the internal partition, and adding a rear extension. The building is now two stories tall and symmetrical with three bays. It has a plinth and a central gabled porch with kneelers and a rounded, moulded stone doorway. A 1844 datestone, carved with the text "deus minereatur, PS. LiVII," sits in the porch gable. Two-light stone mullioned windows with Tudor arched lights and square-headed hoodmoulds with label stops flank the porch. The original ornamental iron glazing bars remain. Two gabled roof dormers with 20th-century glazing are also present, as is a 1986 conservatory added to the left end.

The interior retains the carved texts on the doorframes: “give us our daily bread” on entering and “deliver us from evil” on exiting. Otherwise, no original fittings remain. It is a picturesque 19th-century Tudor building situated on a roadside site.