Montacute Church Of England Voluntary Control Primary School, And Front Boundary Railings

Montacute Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School was built in 1847 and has been extended in 1893, 1895-1896, and in the mid-20th century. The school is constructed from ham stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof, featuring stepped coped gables and yellow brick chimney stacks. It is a single-storey building with the original northern section comprising three bays. The structure includes a plinth, an eaves course, and battlemented coping, with the slightly projecting second bay topped by a small bell turret and angled corner buttresses. The outer bays have four-light mullioned and transomed windows with labels, and the lights are cusped and ogee-headed. The second bay features a pair of boarded doors set in four-centre arches with carved spandrels beneath a common label. Above the doors is a Gothic-style plaque inscribed with "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it," and the gable is incised with "Montacute National School 1847."

To the south, there is a single-bay extension that has a long return to the rear. The end gable of this extension contains a multiple plain window, and below it is a projecting porch with a flat roof behind a parapet, featuring a cambered arched doorway with toplights and flanking windows that match the original design. Above the door is a scroll inscribed 'AD 1895.' Further south, a mid-20th century extension is built of random coursed rubble, with a plain parapet and two-light steel casement windows with reconstructed stone surrounds. The interior has not been seen.

To the east of the original school, there are simple wrought iron railings with a top rail and no spikes, and further south is a low stone wall with angled coping, both of which contribute to the building's setting and the streetscape.