The Old School House

The Old School House is a row of four houses built in 1865 for the Rockingham Castle estate. They are constructed from squared coursed and banded limestone and ironstone, topped with slate roofs. Originally designed as a two-unit terrace, the houses are two storeys high and form a four-window range. The first-floor windows are set in eaves dormers. The three windows on the left are leaded casements beneath shallow stone arches. To the right, a bay projects forward as a gabled cross wing, featuring a casement with a glazing bar under a shallow stone arch on the first floor and a square bay on the ground floor. There are two 19th-century ribbed doors on the right and a single door on the left, all with lattice porches. The houses have plain wood bargeboards and brick and stone stacks, which have been partially renewed, located at the ridge, eaves, and ends. The cross wing on the left has a datestone and may have been built separately from the main range; it was originally the school master's house. The left elevation features a stone gabled porch. The interiors have not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.