Former School, Deerness

This is a former school building dating to around 1872, with later alterations and additions. It comprises a two-storey, three-bay rectangular schoolhouse and a single-storey, four-bay school that adjoins the rear (west) of the main schoolhouse. A bellcote with a finial sits atop the west gable of the rear school. The buildings are constructed with harled concrete cills.

The schoolhouse's east (principal) elevation features a piended-roofed glazed porch with a timber-panelled door in its left return, located at ground floor level in the central bay, with a window above it on the first floor. Large windows are found at ground level in each bay, with smaller windows above them. The south (side) elevation has a window at each floor within a single gabled bay. The north (side) elevation is blank, with a gablehead stack. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, with a fixed timber-framed window in the porch. The roof is covered in graded purple slate, with a stone ridge, coped skews, a harled, corniced gablehead stack to the north, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

The single-storey school to the rear has a south (principal) elevation of four bays, grouped 1-2-1. Each bay features a bipartite window, recessed to the centre, except for a window in a lean-to addition to the left of the centre. The advanced bay to the right has a bipartite window. A boarded door is located in the right return. The west (side) elevation consists of a window in a slightly recessed bay to the right, a bipartite window to a gabled bay on the left, and a blind oculus above the gablehead. The north (rear) elevation is five bays wide, grouped 1-4, with evenly disposed windows in bays to the right. A lean-to addition is present at ground level to the outer left, and a gabled dormer window, breaking the eaves, is positioned above. The rear school's windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, and it has a graded purple slate roof, a stone ridge, coped skews, a coped bellcote, a harled, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks, a simple, square ridge ventilation to the central pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Low rubble boundary walls with a later cement cope enclose a small garden to the south of the schoolhouse and along the south boundary of the school. A rubble, lean-to range of lavatories is situated to the rear (north) of the school, running parallel to it.