Description

Robert Wilson, 1897, McDonald Road extension (McDonald Road block), John A Carfrae, 1903. 2-storey and attic, 11-bay, monumental Queen Anne school. Squared and snecked sandstone ashlar with red sandstone ashlar at ground and margins. Base course, round-arched keystoned windows at ground, cill band at 1st floor, cornice course above 1st floor, cill band at attic; 3-bay projecting gable to centre with Venetian window to gablehead; flanking gablehead bays set-back with 2-storey gablehead bay projecting to outer right.

NE PRINCIPAL BLOCK:

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: windows to 9 centre bays at ground, regular fenestration above, 2 segmental dormerheads to left and right, Venetian window to centre; architraved windows to outer bays at ground with architraved entrances with fanlights, stone-mullioned tripartites to both floors above, motifs to gablehead; stone-mullioned tripartites at ground and 1st floors, segmental pediment to 1st floor. Windows at ground and 1st floors to side elevations of projecting centre bays.

SE MCDONALD ROAD BLOCK:

NE (BROUGHTON ROAD) ELEVATION: connected to principal block by modern link. 7-bay, round-arched key-stoned windows at ground, stone-mullioned bipartites to right at 1st floor, windows to remaining bays, segmental arched tall stone-mullioned bipartites with motifs to centre in 2nd, 4th and 6th bays at 2nd floor.

SE (MCDONALD ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-storey with attic and basement, 20-bay (17 bays to McDonald Road, 3 bays to canted corner). 2-leaf timber panelled door in corniced and architraved entrance in bay 14 with window directly above with cornice and pediment, date panel to centre (1903), small window to left of entrance with windows in 3 bays to right, smaller to outer right, windows to remaining keystoned round-arched bays; stone-mullioned bipartites to left and to alternate bays to 1st floor, windows to remaining bays; stone-mullioned bipartite to bay 12 with flanking windows; stone-mullioned tripartite to bay 14 with windows to bays remaining, smaller window to outer right. Regular fenestration above with smaller windows; segmental-headed dormers with decorative panels to tympani in bays 3 and 9, paired gablehead between bays 5 and 7, corbelled stripped pilasters flank blank panel linking gableheads at centre. Ridge ogee cupola above. Regular fenestration to left and right in canted corner bays, stone-mullioned bipartite to segmental headed dormer with decorative panel to tympanum to centre above with flanking stone-mullioned bipartites, bracketed broken pediment with keystone over carved panel, 'Broughton Higher Grade School' to centre at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case windows with multi-pane glazing, grey slates, ridge and wall head stacks with terracotta cans, castiron railings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

JANITOR'S HOUSE AND PLAYSHELTER: 2-storey, single bay gable headed janitor's house to right of principal elevation adjoining East Claremont Street; stone mullioned tripartites at each floor, entrance set back to left. 2-storey, 5-bay play shelter to rear with windows at 1st floor.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low coped, stepped ashlar walls, square plan pedestaled gatepiers with cornice and ball finial to principal elevation. Square plan gatepiers with cornice to McDonald Road elevation.

Statement of Interest

Substantial example of Edinburgh Board School design in Queen Anne style, sited prominently at junction of several roads.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810885

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