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Latitude: 57.3324 / 57°19'56"N
Longitude: -4.4775 / 4°28'38"W
OS Eastings: 250955
OS Northings: 829589
OS Grid: NH509295
Mapcode National: GBR H99B.RRQ
Mapcode Global: WH3FT.6Y3S
Plus Code: 9C9Q8GJF+X2
Entry Name: West Schoolhouse, Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit
Listing Name: Drumnadrochit, Glenurquhart Secondary School and Schoolhouse.
Listing Date: 17 April 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348511
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15009
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Drumnadrochit, Glenurquhart Secondary School, West Schoolhouse
ID on this website: 200348511
Location: Urquhart and Glenmoriston
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Parish: Urquhart And Glenmoriston
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Probably Alexander Ross, later 19th century. Long S facing
single storey school range flanked either end by single storey
and attic, 3-bay schoolhouses. Red sneck coursed rubble with
contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and long and short
detailing.
9-bay centre school block, with slightly advanced gabled
outer and centre bays, and with 2 entrances in projecting
porches abutting outer gables. Paired long pointed-headed
windows in outer gables; similar triple windows in centre.
All small windows have pointed heads. Schoolhouses each with
centre door under bargeboarded slated canopy with flanking pointed-headed windows similar to those in school. Segmental
headed windows break wallheads in outer bays, rising into
gablets. 4-pane glazing, multi-pane glazing in long windows.
Blind trefoil vents in gables; coped ridge and end stacks;
slate roofs with projecting eaves.
School fronted by cast-iron spearhead railings with matching
gates and slender octagonal cast-iron gate piers. Coped
rubble garden walls enclose schoolhouses, with paired gates
and similar gate piers as school.
Accommodated 233 children by 1885.
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