Description: Built in 1637, rebuilt in 1830, improved in 1853 and enlarged in 1876. Derbyshire County Council bought the school after the second world war and built new premises at a site quarter of a mile away in 1964. The original building was demolished in 1968 for road widening. Yew Tree Cottage now stands in the same grounds, set back from the road. Taken from A History of Shirland & Higham by Gladwyn Turbutt, published 1978.