Estate School And School Master's House, The Glen

The Estate School and School Master's House, known as The Glen, dates to circa 1869 and was constructed for Sir Charles Tennant. It was built by estate joiners and masons. The building is a two-storey, multi-bayed structure in a picturesque style, comprising a schoolmaster's house and a single-storey former schoolroom that has been incorporated into an asymmetrical dwelling. It is built from locally quarried whinstone with tabbed ashlar quoins and dressings.

The south-east elevation features stone steps leading to an advanced, gabled timber porch with heavy uprights. The gablehead of the porch is braced and has a king-post finial and exposed rafters. A timber boarded door has ornate wrought-iron hinges and a matching hoop door handle. To the left of the entrance is a one-and-a-half storey gabled end with a tripartite window on the ground floor and a smaller tripartite window above. Timber purlins are visible to the gablehead. To the right of the entrance are paired tripartite windows indicating the original schoolroom, with a pair of pitched and gabled roof ventilators in the attic.

The south-west elevation shows, to the left, a one-and-a-half storey gabled end with a door on the ground floor and a window to the left, along with a gablehead window in the attic. Exposed purlins are visible. To the right is a single-storey wall with a sliding tripartite window on the ground floor, and a much later flat-roofed, slated dormer with three-part glazing.

The north-east elevation exhibits a set-back gabled end of the former schoolroom, now partially obscured by a single-storey, flat-roofed extension. To the right is a further original gabled end, with exposed timber purlins to both gables.

Unusual three-part, sliding timber casement windows, each with three vertically placed panes, are present on the main elevation of the school house. Some four-pane glazing remains in timber sash and case windows on the side and rear elevations; other windows have been updated with modern glazing. Tripartite timber windows with opening top hoppers are found in the former school room. The pitched slate roof has lead ridging, exposed timber purlins and rafters, and heavy timber king-post finials. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods run along the roofline. Gablehead and roofline ashlar stacks have projecting neck copes and plain cans, though some of these are now missing.

The interior of the building has been adapted for residential use, with the former schoolroom now serving as living accommodation.