West Yell Schoolhouse, Yell

Mid 19th century, with later or late 19th century alteration. Former school buildings in terraced form comprising single storey and attic 3-bay teacher's house to S, single storey 3-bay schoolroom to N. Harled walls to teacher's house, harl-pointed rubble walls to schoolroom.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 6-bay (grouped 3-3) elevation, regularly-fenestrated schoolroom to left of centre, teacher's house to right of centre comprising gabled porch projecting in centre bay with vertically-boarded timber door in S side and 6-pane timber fixed-light in W side, windows in flanking bays.

N ELEVATION: single storey lean-to double-doored entrance porch projecting at ground, segmental-arched doors to E and W ends, former with vertically-boarded timber door, latter with cement-rendered infill; narrow 2-pane fixed-lights flanking centre of N wall, bipartite timber glazing to segmental-arched window centred in principal gablehead rising behind.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, lower eaves to regularly-fenestrated teacher?s house at left of centre; single window centring schoolroom to right of centre, with piend-roofed store projecting immediately to left.

S GABLE: asymmetrical, lower eaves to right.

Timber sash and case glazing, 12-pane to W elevation and E window of schoolroom, 6-pane to E windows of house, 4-pane to 2-light timber-mullioned window in N gable. Purple-grey slate roof, cement-rendered skew-copes with block skewputts, finialled to N gable. Gablehead and ridges stacks respectively to S and N of teachers house, harled, with concrete copes and circular cans; single-flue cement-rendered and lined shouldered wallhead stack with circular can to N end of E elevation.

INTERIOR: vertically-boarded timber wainscoting to schoolroom; cast-iron stove fronting timber chimneypiece at S wall.

PLAYGROUND AND GARDEN WALLS: random rubble walls forming rectangular enclosure around building; internal wall running E-W dividing playground and garden.

TOILET BUILDINGS: single storey L-plan children?s toilets integral with playground wall at NE corner; harl-pointed rubble walls with purple-grey slate monopitch roof. Single storey square-plan teacher?s toilet integral with garden wall at SE corner; harled walls with purple-grey slate mono-pitch roof.