Female Industrial School, North Bank Dykes, Errol

The building is a former schoolhouse, known as the Female Industrial School, located on Station Road in Errol. It was designed by J, J M and W H Hay of Liverpool and constructed in 1855. This single-storey, six-bay structure is laid out in an L-plan and is built of snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. It features base and eaves courses, a pointed-arch door, and windows that are trefoil-headed and basket-arched, with stone mullions and chamfered arrises.

On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay to the right, which has a raised centre 4-light window and a relieving arch. To the left, there is a boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges set in a recessed bay, and a two-stage stack that pierces the eaves at the outer left angle.

The south (north back dykes) elevation has six regularly spaced square-headed windows that are basket-arched and ogee-moulded. An adjoining schoolhouse is located to the outer right.

On the north elevation, there is a gabled bay to the right featuring a trefoil-headed tripartite window and a stack at the outer right angle. The recessed bays to the left are obscured by a modern flat-roofed extension, and a wallhead stack to the left has been replaced with brick. The adjoining schoolhouse is at the outer left.

The north elevation includes diamond-pattern leaded glazing, while the west elevation retains latticed trefoils over 4- and 5-pane glazing patterns. The south elevation has timber sash and case windows with a horizontal 10-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are a coped ashlar stack with a polygonal can, as well as a coped shouldered brick stack with a can. The skews are stepped and ashlar-coped, featuring moulded skewputts.

Inside, the schoolhouse has a boarded dado and a hammerbeam roof supported on stone corbels.

The boundary walls consist of a low brick wall with semicircular stone coping, which formerly had inset railings. The flat-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers are accompanied by ironwork gates.