Hanmer Voluntary Primary School

Hanmer Voluntary Primary School is a complex of buildings, originally dating back to 1676, with significant alterations and additions throughout the 18th, 19th, and 21st centuries. The school stands facing east towards the churchyard.

Initially a single-storey, north-south oriented range constructed of hand-moulded brick with a slate roof, the original building was extended on both the north and south sides, maintaining the original roofline. A brick stack is located to the left of centre. At the south end is a two-storey former school house, comprising a main east-west range and a rear wing, both with brick stacks. A southwest wing sits at right angles to the rear of the original range, with parallel west and northwest wings extending from it.

The three-window original range has windows inserted in 1850, with stone surrounds and mullions to the central double-transomed two-light window, which is beneath a gable added around 1900. Flanking this gable are cross windows. A diamond tablet to the right of centre records the school's original construction in 1676 and its restoration in 1850. A change in brickwork on the left (south) side of the original range indicates an earlier extension or rebuilding. This section features a doorway with a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, and a replacement three-light window, both with stone surrounds. A later extension on the north side is distinguished by an uneven vertical joint and a change in brickwork, with a two-light gabled window replacing an original opening.

The former school house has a half-glazed door and overlight in its east wall, linking it to the school’s front elevation. The upper storey features replacement windows and a cross window in the gable. The south wall of the school house has transomed windows with stone lintels and stone sills. The west gable end has a similar two-light window in the upper storey.

A one-storey gabled extension sits to the left of the school house, with a parallel southwest wing behind it. The southwest wing has a large replacement segmental-headed window in its gable end and two replacement windows on its north side. A west wing, parallel to the main range, has segmental-headed double doors and a window to its right and a parallel northwest wing with a three-window west wall and replacement windows. A projecting gabled bay was added to the northwest wing in 2001.

On the north side, the gable ends of the west and northwest wings project beyond the main range's gable end, which features a replacement segmental-headed window and gable louvres.

The original school room has two trusses, likely dating from 1850, designed in a 17th-century style, with corbelled arched braces. The trusses have tie and collar beams, with fretwork balusters above the tie beams. The rear wall of the school room, originally an external wall, contains three cross windows similar to those on the front. The south wall of the school room incorporates two pointed Decalogue boards and two round-headed boards bearing the Lord's Prayer and Apostles Creed, set within a plaster architrave with a central pediment. The southwest wing has arched-brace trusses and the west wing has collar-beam trusses.