School, Easter Pencaitland

This is a single-storey school with a two-storey schoolmaster’s house attached, built in 1870 and enlarged at the rear in 1887. The building is constructed of squared, snecked, and stugged stone with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals.

The North elevation features a slightly projecting wide gabled bay to the left, containing two narrow windows on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor. Lower eaves define the bays flanking to the right, each with a single ground floor window, a first-floor window breaking the eaves in a gabled dormerhead above. A doorway is set within a recessed single-storey range of the school, to the left of the schoolhouse. The doorway is contained within a square-plan porch with a round arch, stone pyramidal base with a truncated spire above, and inscriptions reading "Remember now try creation in the days of your youth" to the North and "Suffer little children to come unto me" to the East. The West elevation has a stone mullioned tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor, with a gabled elevation.

Three recessed bays link the school to the schoolhouse on the North side, with a round-arched doorway to the right of the schoolhouse’s door. Gabled dormerheads are above the central and left lancet bipartite windows, the right dormerhead inscribed "Pencaitland Public School" with a ribbon below, while the left dormerhead features a medallion profile of Queen Victoria and a ribbon in her honour.

The East elevation is almost symmetrical with ten bays, with advanced gabled outer bays, each containing a bipartite lancet window and circular panels above with quatrefoil ventilators. A round arched doorway is set in the re-entrant angle to the left. A raised chimney breast with set-offs is centrally located, flanked by two gabled bays with a bipartite lancet window in each, and further narrow windows flanking again.

The schoolmaster's house has horizontal-pane glazing, while the school windows feature square panes in a top-hopper form. The roof is covered with grey slates, with decorative strips to the North range of the school. Triangular ventilators are on the North pitch of the roof, and slender Victorian Gothic spire ventilators are along the ridges, each with a slate base. Decorative cast-iron ridge brattishing is present on both the schoolmaster’s house and the school, alongside original gutterheads. Simple wrought-iron railings are located to the East of the school.