An abandoned school with decades-old maths equations on the blackboards has been put up for sale.
Remnants of the final lessons are still chalked up in the classrooms of the uninhabited building in Pool, Cornwall, which closed in 2003 after over 100 years.
Situated in Church Road, Grade II listed Pool Board School is on the market for over half a million pounds.
It is thought to have been designed by revered local architect Silvanus Trevail before being built in 1896.
The site continued to be used for Maths and Geography lessons after the new Pool School opened across the road in the 1970s.
But when additional buildings were added in 2003 to what would become Pool Academy, the old school became surplus to requirements.
Now, with conditional planning consent for conversion into a total of four three- and four-bedroom dwellings, the building is up for sale with property consultants Vickery Holman for offers in the region of £525,000.
Adjacent to the original school for girls, built in 1845, this much larger board school was built in 1896 as school boards were introduced around the country following the Elementary Education Act 1870.
The simple symmetrical layout of the building meant that it could easily be split in two, with separate entrances for boys and girls, and three classrooms for each group, reports CornwallLive.
The larger rooms in the middle of the building provided two separate halls, with a partition between them which could originally be folded back to create one large school hall.
Although there is little left from the school days inside the building, the fire exit signs that were added in its more recent years remain.
On one of the rolling blackboards, the date of Valentine's Day, 1996, neatly written in chalk, has not been rubbed out.
On the same blackboard, someone has written 'E = M.C. Hammer', which is likely to have been added after lessons were no longer held in this classroom, but certainly fits in the mid-nineties timeline for when the rapper was at his peak.
Looking through the doors from the school hall into what would have originally been one of the classrooms for boys.
At the eastern end of the old school hall there is a mural, which, according to old photographs, once covered the whole of the back wall and celebrates Richard Trevithick and the mining heritage of the local area.
Although a newer wall is now in its place, originally the main school hall was split in half by a folding partition.
Trevail, who was responsible for similar late Victorian schools in St Austell and Polperro, as well as the Headland Hotel, Camelot Castle Hotel and many others.
In fact, following the 1870 Act, Trevail designed as many as 50 schools in Cornwall.
And as well as being Cornwall's most famous architect at the time, he was also the mayor of Truro.
However, sadly, Trevail's fame and fortune did not bring him happiness, and after suffering from depression the architect took his own life in a train toilet as it entered a tunnel near Bodmin railway station on November 7, 1903.
In the old Pool school, the afternoon sunlight shines through the tiled corridor that leads from the hall to the toilets.
Only one toilet remains in the old boys' lavatory.
Before there were phones and calculators, there was a blackboard covered in numbers.
100 years of layers of paint coming off the walls of a corridor. The Victorian tiles on the floor have faired much better.
The windows of the old school hall certainly catch the afternoon sunshine.
Just as the hall section of the old school was once split into four large rooms, the proposed plans which have conditional planning consent split the building into four homes.
With such high ceilings in the old school rooms, the proposed plans incorporate a first floor and mezzanines.
The original boys and girls entrances will become the front doors for two of the homes.
And to make the most of that afternoon light that floods through the windows, the proposed plans include conservatories.
Whoever buys this historic old school, and whatever they decide to do with it, it is likely that this impressive building will still be standing in another 100 years.
