Description

1883 dated in gable, extensive range of school buildings. Single storey with raised basement at rear. Tooled and snecked red rubble with contrasting cream tooled ashlar dressing. Laid out on a free H-plan, every block gabled with three or five-light lancets. Some gables have decorative drip moulds or a plain roundel in the apex. Other elevations with single light square headed windows and pairs of lancets under secondary gables. All gables with straight skews, and most with iron finials. Octagonal lead bellcote topped by a weathervane rising from square base with decorative cast iron balustrade. Three doors on south, one on southwest elevation, one at north. Slate roofs

Statement of Interest

Lanark Grammar School was built in 1883 (as shown by a datestone in a gable of the north elevation) and opened the following year. The school was damaged by fire in February 1888, reopening the following September.

Many new board schools were built between 1872 (following the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act) and 1919 (when school boards were abolished). Whilst Lanark Grammar School is not a rare building type its design, setting and relative early date for a Board School is of special interest. The building has a significant amount of distinguishing architectural detailing which sets it apart from early Board Schools, especially from those found in towns which were often smaller and plainer than the new schools being built in Scotland's cities.

Listed building record updated in 2020.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17852237

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