The Old School House

Semi-detached four-bay single-storey national school with dormer attic, dated 1897, retaining original fenestration. Renovated, c.1975, to accommodate residential use. Renovated, pre-1999, with single-bay single-storey lean-to conservatory added to west. Pitched slate roof (gabled to dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, concrete coping, timber bargeboards, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, pre-1999, on timber eaves. Lean-to glazed roof to conservatory in uPVC frame. Painted roughcast walls with rendered strips to corners, and rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 3/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows with some replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999, to rear (west) elevation. Round-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door, c.1975, having spoked fanlight. Set back from line of road in own grounds on elevated site with lawns to front having coursed squared rubble stone retaining boundary wall to front with cut-stone coping, and cut-stone piers having globe finials.(ii) Semi-detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, pre-1999, to west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge ties, timber bargeboards, and timber eaves. Random rubble stone walls with red brick quoins. Square-headed door opening with timber door.

A well-composed national school, originally built as part of a larger complex including the range to south (22807001/WD-18-07-01), which is of interest as one of the earliest-surviving purpose-built educational facilities in the locality of Passage East. Although renovated to accommodate an alternative use, the original form and massing of the building remains discernible, while replacement features and materials have been installed in keeping with the original integrity of the design. Prominently positioned on an elevated site, the school forms an attractive feature in the streetscape on the road leading into Passage East from the south.