The Old School and Schoolhouse

The Old School and Schoolhouse is a red brick building with sandstone dressings and Dinorwic slate roofs, dating back to the 18th century and retaining significant historical integrity. The building comprises a school and a teacher's house arranged around a central entrance porch and belfry.

The west range of the building contains the former main classrooms and is approached from the west elevation, which features four windows articulated by generous buttresses between the windows and diagonally at the corners. Each window has three trefoil-headed lights separated by stone mullions. Similar windows are present in the gables of the west range, with a trefoil light in each gable apex. A former infants' classroom, set at a right angle to the north, is simpler in construction, but contains two tall mullion and transom windows on its north side and one similar window in its east gable; these windows appear to have been reconstructed or repositioned.

The teacher's house, situated to the south-east, is two storeys in height and has a front elevation facing south. It features two gables and a main door between them, with timber mullion and transom windows. The right gable projects considerably, and the ground floor incorporates a bay window.

A two-storey entrance porch, with an octagonal belfry tower and spire, is positioned between the south classroom and the teacher’s house. The porch door has a four-centred arch, and the window above is a smaller version of the schoolroom windows. The tower transitions to the octagonal shape with two courses of stone. A lancet window with restored louvres is located on the front of the tower, which is topped with a slated spire, a brass ball lightning conductor, and a weathervane.

The building has undergone alterations in two phases. A flat-roofed suite of entrance and rooms, believed to be a school canteen from around 1950, has been added to the north. The teacher's house has been extended with a lean-to w.c. and kitchen, with a room above, which overlaps the east gable of the former infants' classroom. The east gable of the infants' classroom has been rebuilt using Ruabon or similar bricks. An upper floor has been inserted into the former infants' classroom, creating rooms now incorporated into the house, and the main former classrooms in the west range are now open to the roof, with the original dividing partition removed.