School And School House With Boundary Walls

The former school and school house, now a dwelling, dates from the mid-19th century. The school room features dressed squared Cotswold limestone with a cavetto cornice and blocking course, coped gables, and concrete tile roofing, along with two metal ridge ventilators. The cornice extends to the gable ends, where it crowns projecting pilasters. This single-storey structure originally had two entrances, likely for boys and girls, and includes three 2-light and one 3-light chamfered mullion casements with four-centred heads and stopped drips. Between the first and second windows is a 20th-century glazed door in the original opening, also with a four-centred head and stopped drip, while there is a blocked doorway to the right with the same detail. Each gable features a large 3-light mullioned casement.

The School House is designed in a late Gothic villa style and is connected to the school room by a single-storey block that shares similar architectural details. It has ashlar walls with alternating courses of plain and beaver-tailed tiles. This two-storey building has a gable at the left eaves and a full gable at the right, with a central gabled porch that has an arched opening leading to a plank door, flanked by small side-lights, and topped with a small oculus. There are two-light casements on both sides at each level, with the mullions featuring stopped chamfers. The link unit to the left also has a similar 2-light casement, and all casements include horizontal bars. A large external gable stack is located on the left side.

In addition to their architectural significance, these buildings are notable for their connection to Laurie Lee's 'Cider with Rosie'. The boundary wall along the road is made of carved squared limestone with weathered coping, and at the far left end, there is an iron gate. The wall drops to a lower level opposite the house and returns to a pair of iron gates, contributing to the overall setting of the group.