Description

Attributed to James Findlay, dated 1913; earlier 20th century addition to N. Single storey, U-plan school. Original building bull-faced snecked rubble, ashlar dressings, grey slate roof. High base course, variously grouped 6-pane top-hopper windows, tripartite and transomed 10-pane top-hoppers to S gables; large panelled wallhead kneelers and coped skews to gables; steeply pitched, piended bell-cast roof with modillioned eaves, coped stacks with uniform cream cans; cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative dated hopper to S elevation; coped ridge stacks. Addition rendered as bull-faced snecked rubble, rendered and lined as ashlar at rear, piended slate roof; variously grouped 6-pane top-hopper windows.

E ELEVATION: entrance porch slightly advanced to centre left, checked doorcase with ?boys? inscribed at lintel, corniced parapet; 2 bipartite windows to left, bipartite to right flanked by single windows; recessed bay to far right, 4-light window to corniced outshot bay, single window recessed to right.

S ELEVATION: slightly advanced paired gables to centre, 4-light window to left, 5-light window to right, slightly advanced gables to far left and right.

W ELEVATION: original wall to right blank, tripartite window breaking through eaves to left return; later additions to left.

N ELEVATION: 2 tripartite windows to flat-roofed bay at centre,

2 multi-pane flat-roofed dormers to main roof; wings advanced to left and right in 2 stages with various doors and windows.

INTERIOR: 1st World War memorial and classical pedimented Dux medallists board in hall.

BOUNDARY WALL: low boundary wall to E with cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

This building is stylistically similar to Longforgan Primary School by James Findlay, listed below. This latter building forms part of a

B group with the earlier school building and The Old School House,

St Columba?s Church and Hall, All Souls? Episcopal Church, the Old Rectory, and the Old Rectory Former Coach House/Stables. The earlier school building is listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619555

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)