Rosehill Schoolhouse

The Rosehill Schoolhouse is associated with the early school system in Ontario. Constructed in 1872, this one-room schoolhouse served Caledon Township School Section #11. The schoolhouse was closed in 1964 following the introduction of centralized schooling in Ontario, and converted to its current residential use. A majestic row of maples trees, planted in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, demarcate the original southern boundary of the schoolhouse property.

The Rosehill Schoolhouse is a good example of an institutional building constructed in an Italianate-influenced vernacular style. It is also unique to the area, being one of only two 19th century schoolhouses built of stone in the former Caledon Township. Rectangular in plan with a hip roof and wide eaves, the schoolhouse's walls are of randomly coursed local limestone, with projecting cut stone quoins. Unlike its red brick counterparts of the same era, the Rosehill Schoolhouse is distinguished by an entrance on the long side, centred between two pairs of windows and sheltered by a bracketed portico with decorative finials. The building's most outstanding features are its tall, arched casement windows, capped by projecting masonry arches.