Old Schoolhouse, High Street, Ayton

The Old Schoolhouse on High Street in Ayton is a late 18th century building with later additions and alterations. It is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay rectangular former schoolhouse that forms the end of a terrace, with a single-storey gabled addition at the rear. The front features squared and snecked painted render with painted margins, while the sides and rear are constructed from harl-pointed sandstone rubble. The building has an eaves course and projecting cills.

On the northeast (entrance) elevation, there is a deep-set timber panelled door in the center at ground level, topped by a plate glass fanlight. A single window is aligned above on the first floor, with single windows in both flanking bays on each floor.

The northwest (side) elevation is blind, while the southwest (rear) elevation has a gabled projection offset to the left of center. This elevation is irregularly fenestrated with windows on both floors in the remaining bays to the left and right.

The front features four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, some with secondary glazing, while the rear has small-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone-coped skews, brick-built apex stacks with various circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The site is enclosed by a heavily-pointed, low coped boundary wall at the front and a taller rubble wall partially enclosing the former playground at the rear.