Old School House, Mount Stuart House

Late 19th century. Near-symmetrical 2-storey, 7-bay Old English style half-timbered former school; subdivided to form pair of cottages (left cottage 4-bay, right cottage 3-bay; single storey wing recessed at centre). Harl-pointed red rubble sandstone at ground; red sandstone dressings; half-timbering at 1st floor. Raised base course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Tooled red rubble quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to slightly droved, chamfered openings; projecting cills; chamfered mullions. Harl-pointed rubble at rear.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tripartite windows at ground in 2 bays flanking centre; tripartite windows at ground in slightly advanced, penultimate bays to outer left and right; bipartite windows centred in half-timbered gableheads above. 2-bay entrance wing recessed to outer left comprising boarded timber door off-set to right of centre, single window off-set to left. Boarded timber door centred in pitched entrance porch recessed to outer right.

Leaded 2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Red clay-tile roof; terracotta ridge detailing; coped ashlar ridge stacks; circular terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: round-arched rubble coping to harl-pointed random rubble wall dividing boundaries at rear.