Description

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson; 1876. 2-storey, 2-bay gothic school master's house. Bull-faced, squared rubble with ashlar long and short quoins and dressings. Hoodmoulds with label-stops; stop-chamfered and chamfered reveals, stone transoms and mullions.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: broad advanced gable to left of centre with canted quadripartite transomed window at ground, trefoil-headed bipartite window in gablehead with floral motif in tympanum and glazed quatrefoil at apex all below pointed-arch hoodmould; broad hoodmoulded doorway to right (abutting return of advanced gable) with round-headed door, voussoirs, plate tracery-effect window with blind arch-head quatrefoil, boarded timber door and adjacent narrow light to right, pointed-arch bipartite stair window in gablehead above.

S ELEVATION: M-gable (each with gablehead stack) with small window to centre, single storey piend-roofed wing to right with small window to left and window (converted coal shute) to right, door on return to left.

E ELEVATION: window to left at ground and smaller window to centre; dormerheaded bipartite window breaking eaves to left above, and tall wallhead stack to right.

W ELEVATION: window to right of centre at ground and smaller window to centre; dormerheaded window breaking eaves to right.

Small-pane upper sashes over 4-pane and plate glass lower, all in timber sash and case windows; bipartite window to S left with small pane glazing over 2-part timber casement windows; stair window leaded small-pane glazing. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans, some polygonal; stepped, ashlar-coped skews and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: decorative cornice to ground floor sitting room; stop- chamfered architraves to doorways; timber fireplace and staircase with plain cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: saddleback-coped ashlar gatepiers and low boundary walls to N; coped rubble boundary walls to S, E and W.

Statement of Interest

Although now privately owned, No 40 retains its importance as part of an unusually good and complete example of an early board school. The school and janitor's house (Nos 42 and 44 respectively) are listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806548

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)