School House And The Village House (Shown As The Old Cottage On O.S. Map)

The School House and the Village House, also known as The Old Cottage on the Ordnance Survey map, is a building located in Appleton-le-Moors. It was constructed in 1865 by J.L. Pearson and originally served as a schoolmaster's house and village school, but it is now used as a village hall with an attached house. The structure is built from coursed, squared limestone, with some parts timber-framed, and features ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It showcases High Victorian Gothic architectural style.

The building consists of two storeys with a crosswing, and to the right is a full-height school hall that is open to the roof. The gable end faces the street and projects at the rear into what was once a playground. The windows are arranged irregularly. The hall's gable end features a tall three-light window with geometrical tracery set on a sill band between buttresses. Above this is a diagonally-set bellcote with four openings and an octagonal spire. The entrance is located in a pent porch to the right, which has a pointed boarded door with iron hinges, topped with a hood-mould. The schoolmaster's house has a similar door, and above it is a half-dormer with a pointed gable and two-light windows with plate tracery.

On the left side, the crosswing has a three-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor. An ashlar lintel band runs across the facade of the entire building, with a sill band for the same window that terminates at the angle of the crosswing. The upper storey is jettied and timber-framed, featuring a half-hipped gable and a four-light mullion and transom window. The building also has irregular stacks. The interior retains original features, adding to its historical significance.