The Schoolhouse, Paxton

The Schoolhouse in Paxton is a former school building, likely constructed in the later 19th century, with some later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure designed in an Italianate style, featuring a near T-plan layout and a lean-to porch located in the re-entrant angle at the front.

The exterior is made of squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with droved dressings. It has a base course, a string course between the floors, and overhanging timber bracketed eaves. The building is accented with narrow quoins, droved margins around the round-arched openings, sandstone mullions, and bracketed cills.

On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a lean-to porch at the center that includes a modern door and a round-arched fanlight beneath a gable head. To the right, there is a single window set back in the outer bay. To the left, a full-height gabled projection features a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The northwest side elevation has a slightly advanced gabled bay at the center, with bipartite windows on both floors. Flanking this bay are single windows at ground level and additional single windows above, each with panelled aprons.

The northeast rear elevation was not visible in 1999. The building features 4-pane horizontal glazing in timber sash and case windows, a slate roof, and timber bargeboards. Corniced ridge stacks are present, although the cans are missing.

The interior was not seen in 1999.