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Attached eleven-bay single-storey former guardhouse, built c.1890, with central pedimented entrance block and glazed timber veranda supported on cast-iron columns on granite steps to front (south) elevation, and returns to rear. Now in use as primary school. Hipped artificial slate roofs to west end, pitched to breakfront, with clay ridge tiles, granite and yellow brick eaves course and polychrome chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Recent flat roof to east end. Red brick walls, laid in English bond with granite and limestone plinth course and granite quoins. Segmental-headed window openings with cut granite block-and-start surrounds, granite sills and small-pane cast-iron windows. Square-headed window openings with cut granite block-and-start surrounds, granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings with cut granite dressings, timber battened door and overlight. Square-headed door openings with cut granite block-and-start surrounds, timber battened door and overlight. Snecked rubble limestone boundary wall to north.
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