The former Board School of 1872-4, by Szlumper & Aldwinkle, is a Victorian Gothic design with long rear additions of 1910, a stepped array of gables to Park Road and flat-capped and onion-domed roof ventilators. Latterly repaired and subdivided it is in use as offices and a nursery school.
The school was built at the behest of nonconformists who were unhappy that their children had to attend the Anglican sponsored National School. It was built as a result of Forster's Education Act of 1870 and is thought to be one of the earliest results of that Act.
Victorian Society tour notes, 1999, revised January 2006, D.J.Percival, RCAHMW.