Fourways Including Garden And Playground Walls To The South-East

Fourways is a house that was formerly a school and master's house, built in the late 19th century. It is constructed from snecked local stone, featuring rusticated granite quoins and Cocktree ashlar details. The building has a stone stack with an ashlar chimney shaft and a slate roof adorned with pierced and crenellated ridge tiles, including a terracotta finial. The structure is L-shaped, with the main block facing south-east. It has a two-room plan where the larger right room served as the former school room, and there is a porch at the entrance near the right end. The left room is the front room of the master's house, which includes a gable-end stack. There is also another room at the rear in a block that projects at right angles, with the entrance to the former master's house located in this rear room. The building has two storeys.

The front façade features two ground floor windows and one first floor window, which is a half dormer with a hipped roof. All windows are timber mullion-and-transom casements without glazing bars. The former school porch at the right end is gabled and includes a round-headed outer arch that contains a plank door with a fanlight. The roof is gable-ended, and at the left end, there is a small hipped hood over a former bellcote. The right end wall has a ground floor three-light window similar to those at the front, positioned beneath a large first floor lunette with a hoodmould. Inside, there is much joinery and detail from around 1900.

The front garden and the former segregated boys' and girls' playgrounds on either side are enclosed by stone rubble walls topped with rusticated granite coping. Square-section granite ashlar gate posts with truncated pyramid caps mark the entrances. This building is an unspoilt and charming example of a late Victorian country school and master's house.