School House

This house, formerly a schoolmaster's house, was likely built in 1872. It is constructed of snecked volcanic stone with Hamstone dressings, with stacks of snecked volcanic stone and brick chimney shafts, and a red tile roof featuring horizontal bands of fish-scale tiling and alternate plain and crested ridge tiles. The house is in the Gothic style, forming an L-shape with the main range facing south and a crosswing projecting forward from the west end. Originally it had a three-room ground plan, with an axial stack between the rooms in the crosswing and an end stack projecting from the gable end of the main block.

The walls are slightly battered near the ground and feature a moulded Hamstone drip course just below the first-floor level, which acts as a continuous hoodmould over the ground floor windows. All windows have depressed 2-centred arches over small shoulders, with the ground floor arches higher than the first floor arches. The single ground floor windows of the main front and gable end of the crosswing are square-headed 3-light timber mullion-and-upper-transom windows. The arches are filled with a rounded fish-scale pattern tile and have a relieving arch with a hood mould composed of alternate blocks of Hamstone and volcanic trap. The main front has a single 2-light half-dormer with a half-hipped roof to the first floor. The west end of the crosswing has a 3-light mullion-and-upper-transom window to the first floor, also with a fish-scale tile infill to the low arch of volcanic stone, and a narrow arch-headed stair window with gothic-style glazing pattern. A shoulder-headed door with an original monopitch hood on curving struts is set in the inner wall of the wing. Two narrower versions of the main ground floor windows are on the outer wall of the wing, the front one having a square hood. A right-end stack to the first floor only sits on a series of corbels. This end also has plainer arch-headed windows. The end of the wing is half-hipped. The original clustered chimney shafts remain. The interior has not been inspected. The house was built at the same time and in the same style as the adjacent Primary School.