Old School House, Mount Stuart House

The Old School House, dating from the late 19th century, is a near-symmetrical, two-storey, seven-bay building designed in the Old English style. Originally a school, it has been subdivided into two cottages, with the left cottage featuring four bays and the right cottage three bays, and a single-storey wing recessed at the center. The ground floor is constructed of harl-pointed red rubble sandstone, accented with red sandstone dressings, while the first floor showcases half-timbering. The building has a raised base course and overhanging eaves supported by timber brackets. The quoins are tooled red rubble, and the openings are framed with tooled long and short surrounds, featuring slightly droved, chamfered edges, projecting cills, and chamfered mullions. The rear is finished in harl-pointed rubble.

On the entrance elevation, there are tripartite windows on the ground floor in two bays flanking the center, with additional tripartite windows in slightly advanced bays at the outer left and right. Above these, bipartite windows are centered in half-timbered gableheads. A two-bay entrance wing is recessed to the outer left, containing a boarded timber door offset to the right of center and a single window to the left. To the outer right, there is a pitched entrance porch with a centered boarded timber door.

The building features leaded timber sash and case glazing with 2- and 4-pane configurations. The roof is covered with red clay tiles, detailed with terracotta ridge elements, and has coped ashlar ridge stacks with circular terracotta cans.

The boundary wall consists of a round-arched rubble coping atop a harl-pointed random rubble wall that divides the boundaries at the rear.