Old Church School

This is a Tudor Gothic style school building, constructed of rubble stone with quoins and lighter freestone dressings and copings. The slate roof has ridge vents, projecting boarded eaves, and coped gables with moulded kneelers to the front elevation. Two pairs of diagonal brick stacks are positioned to the right of the central part, with two single diagonal stacks to the left.

The front of the building faces east and is comprised of a wider central wing flanked by slightly projecting outer wings. A lower gabled clock room sits in front of the central wing, flanked by porches with lean-to roofs. A raised lantern, with small-pane glazing incorporating pivoting lights, is located towards the rear of the central wing. Skylights have been added to the south wing. The front elevation features mullioned windows; the central wing’s 4-light window has a drip stone and the numerals ‘1899’ in raised lettering on the lintel. A cloak room beneath the window has two 2-light windows under a single drip stone, with battered angle buttresses to the side walls. The flanking porches have boarded doors and small windows in dressed surrounds. The outer wings have coped gables with moulded kneelers and each has a 3-light mullioned and transomed window. Stepped moulded drip stones incorporate tablets recording the building's construction in 1849 and its enlargement in 1898-9 by the Halkyn Estate. The side walls of the north and south wings, each with three windows, feature small-pane glazing beneath stone lintels.

At the rear, the outer wings have replacement windows, with "boys 1849" engraved in the lintel of the south wing and "girls 1849" on the north wing. The slightly recessed central wing has three segmental-headed small-pane windows, and small brick lean-to porches with boarded doors under segmental heads in the side walls.

The porch and clock room are faced with brick and have glazed brick wainscot. The rear lean-tos, incorporating wash basins, also feature glazed brick walls. The main classrooms include boarded wainscoting. The roof trusses are partly concealed and comprise tie beams supported by struts of a low pitch. One exposed truss in the central wing has a king post and curved struts.