West Yell Schoolhouse, Yell

This is a mid-19th century school building, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It comprises a single-storey and attic, three-bay teacher's house facing south, and a single-storey, three-bay schoolroom facing north, arranged in a terraced form. The teacher's house has harled walls, while the schoolroom has harl-pointed rubble walls.

The west-facing principal elevation is asymmetrical, with six bays arranged in groups of three. The regularly-fenestrated schoolroom occupies the left side of the centre, and the teacher’s house is on the right. The teacher’s house features a projecting gabled porch in the centre bay, with a vertically-boarded timber door on the south side and a six-pane fixed light on the west side. Other windows are present in the flanking bays.

The north-facing elevation has a single-storey, lean-to, double-doored entrance porch projecting at ground level. Segmental-arched doors, one with a vertically-boarded timber door and the other with a cement-rendered infill, are positioned at the east and west ends. Narrow two-pane fixed lights flank the centre of the north wall. A two-light, four-pane timber-mullioned window is set within the segmental-arched gablehead.

The east-facing rear elevation is asymmetrical, with lower eaves to the teacher's house on the left and a single window to the schoolroom on the right. A piend-roofed store projects immediately to the left.

The south gable is asymmetrical, with lower eaves on the right.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes on the west elevation and in the east window of the schoolroom; six panes on the east windows of the house; and four panes in the two-light timber-mullioned window in the north gable. The roof is covered in purple-grey slate, with cement-rendered skew-copes featuring block skewputts. A finial is present on the north gable. Gablehead and ridge stacks are located to the south and north of the teacher's house, respectively, and are harled with concrete copes and circular cans. There is a single-flue, cement-rendered and lined shouldered wallhead stack with a circular can to the north end of the east elevation.

Inside the schoolroom, the walls are lined with vertically-boarded timber wainscoting. A cast-iron stove sits in front of a timber chimneypiece on the south wall.

Random rubble walls form a rectangular enclosure around the building, including an internal wall running east-west, dividing the playground and garden. Integral with the playground wall at the northeast corner are single-storey, L-plan children's toilets, with harl-pointed rubble walls and a purple-grey slate monopitch roof. Integral with the garden wall at the southeast corner are single-storey, square-plan teacher’s toilets with harled walls and a purple-grey slate monopitch roof.