The Old Schoolhouse (Weirburn House)

The Old Schoolhouse and Weirburn House dates from the mid to later 19th century, around 1860, and has undergone later additions and alterations. It is a rectangular, two-storey, three-bay former schoolhouse, with a single-storey and attic former classroom recessed to the outer right. The building is constructed of harl-pointed whinstone rubble with polished sandstone dressings. It features overhanging timber eaves supported by brackets, whinstone quoins, architraved margins (mostly red sandstone), projecting moulded cills, and hoodmoulds at ground level to the front. The upper windows are triangular-headed, with blind panels recessed at the heads, and incorporate timber mullions within bipartite and tripartite window arrangements.

The south-west (entrance) elevation has a part-glazed timber panelled door at the centre of the ground floor, accompanied by a three-pane fanlight and an architraved, hoodmoulded doorpiece, from which the cornice and pediment are missing. Bipartite windows flank the ground floor bays, while triangular-headed, gabled windows break the eaves above. The former school hall is recessed to the right, featuring a tripartite window in the outer bay. An engaged polygonal porch is located in the re-entrant angle to the left, with a part-glazed timber panelled door facing south and a plate glass fanlight. A small, louvred opening is centred beneath the apex of the porch roof.

The south-east (side) elevation shows the original house with a bipartite window offset to the left of centre and a polygonal porch offset to the right. A gabled, two-bay wing projects to the right with bipartite windows at ground level in both bays, and a single window above.

The north-east (rear) elevation has a projecting, two-bay wing to the left (with a gabled bay to the right), featuring bipartite windows at ground level in both bays. A small, louvred opening is centred beneath the apex of the outer right bay, and there is a single attic light. A later lean-to addition adjoins to the right, containing a part-glazed timber panelled door to the left and a single window to the right. The original schoolhouse is recessed to the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case with 3-, 5- and 6-pane lying-pane glazing, with some replacement windows to the sides and rear, and various skylights. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has terracotta tile ridging, with predominantly replacement rainwater goods. Corniced apex stacks have been rebuilt in brick to the south-east and north-west, with various circular cans. The interior was not inspected in 1997. The site is enclosed by rubble boundary walls to the front.