Schoolhouse, Cranshaws

The schoolhouse in Cranshaws dates from the early 19th century and has undergone later additions and alterations. It features a rectangular plan, is two stories high, and has three bays. The front includes a gabled porch, with single-storey wings on either side, and a modern school block attached to the northwest.

On the southwest entrance elevation, there is a single window in the projecting gabled porch, which is off-set to the left of the center. A replacement timber door is located in the return to the right, and there is another single window aligned at the first floor. The flanking bays also contain single windows on both floors. The single-storey wing on the outer right has a boarded timber door in the bay to the left and a single window in the bay to the right. In the single-storey wing to the left, which serves as a classroom, there is a bipartite window off-set to the right of center. The modern school block is advanced to the outer left.

The northeast rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated. There is a timber door in the wing advanced to the outer left and two single windows in the wing to the outer right.

The building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with a part-boarded, 4-pane timber sash and case window centered at the first floor. Some 4- and 8-pane glazing is present in the timber sash and case windows at the rear. The roofs are covered with grey slate, and there are raised stone skews and replacement cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled apex stacks are located at the southeast and northwest, along with various circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

Surrounding the site is a low coped rubble boundary wall at the front and rubble walls at the rear. Flanking the entrance are square-plan, coursed rendered gatepiers with pyramidal caps, and there are timber gates.