| Description | This church school was built c.1860, with 20th century alterations and additions. It is built from rock faced stone with slate roofs and coped gables. It has a shouldered ridge, side wall and coped gable stacks. It is in early English style, with a chamfered plinth and quoins. The windows, which were boarded at the time of the survey (English Heritage, 2001), have stone mullions or tracery. The school is a single storey high and has an L shaped plan. The front elevation has the school to the left and a house to the right.
The interior of the main hall has a wagon vaulted roof with exposed principal rafters on corbels. There is also a smaller hall, which was divided horizontally in the mid 20th century, and has a steep pitched principal rafter roof with corbels. Both halls have matchboard dadoes. The main hall has a stage, the smaller hall has a panelled screen. The house has two plain stone fireplaces.
To the outside of the building there is a rock faced stone boundary wall with gabled coping, which encloses the triangular site with a rounded corner. The Bolton Lane side has two gateways with chamfered stone gate piers, which have round heads and Celtic crosses. |