School And School House

This is a former school and school house, built in 1768 with funding from John Yate, and reconstructed in 1852. The school is constructed of brick, while the school house is of rendered brick. The roofs are covered with concrete tiles, with a gable on the right-hand side of the school and a hipped roof on the school house. Brick stacks are present, including a large lateral stack to the left-hand return of the school house.

The single-storey school block has a projecting gabled wing to the right, a gabled porch centrally placed, and a late 20th-century rear extension that is not of special interest. A two-storey school house forms a projecting cross wing to the left. The school has three windows with three-light wood casements and a mid-level transom under segmental heads. A porch sits between windows two and three, featuring a pointed arch plank door, two small side slits, and flanking buttresses. A window is located in the gable at the rear, opposite the first window on the front elevation. A small, lead-covered bell turret is set diagonally on the ridge of the main roof, behind the porch. A stone panel, high between the first two windows, records the endowment by Yate in 1768; below this is a panel commemorating the bicentenary in 1968. Above the porch door is a note detailing the rebuilding cost of £355. 1. 6d in 1852. A triangular panel with a trefoil is inscribed with "Yates Charity." The brickwork, laid in four courses approximately 275mm wide, appears original, rather than being rebuilt in 1852. The school house has late 20th-century replacement casements, with two-light and three-light arrangements, and a string course of rendered two-brick courses. There is a plank door to the right, under a thin hood supported by lattice wood, and a recessed plank door in the angle. The building is modest in its architectural style, but it is complete and represents a significant historical survival in an area isolated from main routes.