Village Hall And Attached House

The building is a village hall and attached house, originally a school and schoolhouse, constructed in 1854 by William Butterfield for the Downe family. It is made of dressed sandstone with tooled dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof, and has an L-shaped plan.

The entrance front features a single-storey house with two bays to the left of the former school. To the right, there is a cross wing gable end with a single-storey projecting entrance bay in the re-entrant angle, and a further lean-to outbuilding to the right of the cross wing. The schoolhouse has a plank door beneath a gabled trellis porch, with paired 12-pane sash windows in pointed surrounds with unpierced tympanums. The school has pointed double doors in a quoined, chamfered surround. A massive quoined external stack with steep offsets is located at the cross wing gable end, which features a pointed recessed panel containing the Downe arms. The outbuilding has paired slit lights.

On the left return of the cross wing, there is a tall gabled window with three shouldered lights, and a central ridge stack with offsets. The roofs are steeply pitched, with the left side half hipped and a pent roof over the entrance bay.

The garden front is 1½-storey with a four-bay layout, where the left end bay is gabled and the right end bay is a lean-to outbuilding. To the left, there is a tall pointed mullion and transom window with four lights and geometric tracery at the head. In the center, there are two 2-light flat-arched 4-pane sashes with mullions. The attic features two similar half dormers under half-hipped gables, and the outbuilding has a pent roof pierced by a chimney stack.

The gable end to the right has a plank door in a timber porch with a bracketed flat hood, along with a dwarf angle buttress. To the left, there is a 12-pane sash window in an unpierced pointed surround, with two similar windows above beneath the half-hipped gable end. The quoined window surrounds and mullions are chamfered with run-out stops.