The Old School, And Boundary Railings To North And West

The Old School, originally a school building and now a private house, was constructed in 1871. It is built of Ham stone, with squared stone, ashlar dressings, a plain clay tiled roof featuring fish-scale bands and ornamental ridge tiles. The roof is gabled with bargeboards and spike finials, and includes a stone chimney stack. The building has a 'T' plan, with a single storey, north elevation consisting of four bays. Bay four is the projecting gable of a western crosswing. Features include a plinth, mullioned windows with chamfered frames; bays one and two have shoulder-arched lights, while bay four has trefoil-cusped lights set under a relieving arch in the tall gable, finished with a trefoil vent. A pitched roof porch with chamfered pointed outer and inner arches is located in bay three, and contains a boarded door and a datestone in the gable. The west elevation mirrors the north, with three bays, the outer bays having single cusped lancets, and a projecting lower gable with a two-light plate-traceried window with a label and rectangular vent above. A 20th-century extension is present at the rear. The interior appears largely unaltered.

Approximately 4 metres from the building, to the north and west, is a low stone wall with angled coping. This wall has piers at intervals of around 3 metres and two rows of diagonally-set square section iron rods, with Gothic-style cast iron posts. The wall curves at a corner, incorporating a recess that contains the remains of a 19th-century water hydrant. A gateway, opposite the porch on the north side, is missing its gate. The railings contribute to the setting of the building and enhance the streetscene at a prominent location in the village centre.