Old School House, Forbestown

Possibly 1838, schoolhouse extended later 20th century. Tall Tudor style, single storey, rectangular-plan, former schoolroom with 2 window gable to road (S) and large tripartite windows breaking eaves into gabled dormerheads at W; adjoining 2-storey, 3-bay schoolhouse with stone windowheads breaking eaves and extended at rear. Harled with ashlar margins and quoin strips. Pointed arch windows with raked cills, timber transoms and mullions, and oculus (blocked) to schoolroom.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: schoolroom to W with transomed tripartite windows flanking square headed tripartite at W elevation, 2 transomed bipartite windows (obscured by foliage) at S gable and oculus over lean-to outshot an N gable. Symmetrical S (entrance elevation) to schoolhouse with centre door and flanking windows.

Multi-pane glazing pattern in decoratively-astragalled timber windows to schoolroom; out-of-character top-opening plate glass glazing to schoolhouse. Grey slates and cast iron fanlight. Coped harled and ashlar stacks with cans. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: some good interior detail retained including schoolroom with hammerbeam roof on stone corbels and boarded dado; schoolhouse with panelled timber doors, timber balusters and granite and marble fireplaces.