Estate School And School Master's House, The Glen

Circa 1869 for Sir Charles Tennant (constructed and designed by estate joiners and masons). 2-storey, multi-bayed, picturesque-style schoolmaster's house with attached single storey former schoolroom now forming asymmetric dwelling house with single storey extension in re-entrant angle. Locally quarried whinstone with tabbed ashlar quoins and dressings.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone steps leading to advanced gabled timber porch with heavy uprights to front, in-filled braced gablehead with king-post finial and exposed rafters to sides (formerly with timber balustraded in-fill to lower half); timber boarded door with ornate wrought-iron hinges and similarly styled hoop door handle on ornate backing; to left, 1 ?-storey gabled end with tripartite window to ground floor and slightly smaller tripartite window to ?-storey; timber purlins and plain boarding to gablehead. To right of entrance, paired tripartite windows denoting former school room with pair of pitched and gabled roof ventilators to attic with timber louvres to front (see NOTES).

SW ELEVATION: to left, 1?-storey gabled end with door to ground floor right and window (with modern glazing) to left, gablehead window to attic, exposed purlins; single storey wallhead to right with sliding tripartite window to centre of ground floor with much later, flat-roofed, slated box dormer (with modern 3-part glazing) to roof.

NE ELEVATION: set-back gabled end of former schoolroom to left now concealed by single storey, later flat-roofed extension; to right, further original gabled end, both gables with exposed timber purlins.

Unusual 3-part, sliding timber casement windows (to main elevation of school house), each with 3 vertically placed panes; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to side and rear elevation; later modern glazing plan to lesser windows; tripartite timber windows with opening top hoppers to former school room. Pitched slate roof with lead ridging; exposed timber purlins and rafters; heavy timber king-post finials. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Gablehead and roofline ashlar stacks with projecting neck copes and plain cans (some now missing).

INTERIOR: schoolroom converted and in use as residential accommodation with the rest of the property.