1-6, The Old School Close

1-6 The Old School Close is a former Church of England school, now converted into residential use, dating from the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. It features flush quoins, coped gables, moulded kneelers, ashlar stacks with moulded caps, and roofs covered with Welsh slates. The structure has an irregular plan and a southeast elevation that consists of a main range of ten bays, which includes an entrance porch and a lower two-bay range with a canted wall at the southwest end.

Although it is a single storey, the building has taller gabled windows and gabled ranges within the elevation, all rising from a chamfered plinth. The gabled range at the northeast end has tall square-headed mullioned and transomed windows, along with a pointed arched traceried light above, which is beneath a hoodmould with carved stops. The next four bays are supported by stepped buttresses and feature two-light windows with mullions and ogee heads; the two central bays have taller mullioned and transomed lights beneath gabled dormers.

There is an advanced gabled central range with a projecting single-storey gabled porch, flanked by taller two-light ogee-headed mullioned windows beneath flat hoodmoulds with stops. A traceried pointed arched opening is located within the gable apex, above which sits a gabled bellcote. The remaining three bays contain ogee-headed two-light mullioned windows with buttresses between them. The window sills and buttresses are linked by a continuous moulded stringcourse. At the southwest end, there is a lower entrance porch with an arched doorway beneath a stilted hoodmould that is also linked to a stringcourse. To the rear, there is a two-bay extension with a canted southwest end.