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Latitude: 56.7076 / 56°42'27"N
Longitude: -2.4695 / 2°28'10"W
OS Eastings: 371354
OS Northings: 757416
OS Grid: NO713574
Mapcode National: GBR VY.FDGW
Mapcode Global: WH8RK.1NBS
Plus Code: 9C8VPG5J+26
Entry Name: South Esk Primary School, South Esk Street, Montrose
Listing Name: South Esk Street, South Esk School Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers.
Listing Date: 30 March 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 383339
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38165
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Montrose, South Esk Street, South Esk Primary School
ID on this website: 200383339
Location: Montrose
County: Angus
Town: Montrose
Electoral Ward: Montrose and District
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: School building
J Sim, 1891. Large 2-storey and attic, shallow H-plan, Wrenaissance-Baroque school building, with central 3-domed, pavilion-roofed tower and flanking wings terminated by gabled end blocks. Sandstone ashlar, part render to rear. Ground floor cill course, band course above ground floor, eaves cornice and parapet.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tower to centre; paired windows with pilaster division, banded rustication at ground floor, paired pilasters at 1st and 2nd floors, keystoned round-arched windows at 3rd floor; pilastered and pedimented tablet above parapet with glazed oculus to centre. 3 bays flanking; doorpiece to centre at ground, pilastered round-arch doorway beneath attached columns supporting segmental pediment, 6-panel door, 2-part fanlight with plate glass glazing. Windows flanking doorpiece, 3 windows at 1st floor. Slightly advanced end blocks; pilastered tripartite window at ground floor, repeated at 1st floor as Venetian windows breaking cornice with oculus above in round-arch recess in gablehead. Shaped apex and stepped skews to gable.
W ELEVATION: 2 bays to centre in shallow advance rising to nepus gable with round-arch window and scroll shouldered, capped stack.
E ELEVATION: as W ELEVATION.
S ELEVATION: 9-bay central section; bays arranged 2, 2, 1, 2, 2. Doorway to centre right at ground, connecting with later single storey flat-roofed extension. Gabled end block; tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors, that at 1st with raised head to centre, round-arch panel in gablehead.
8, 12 and 15-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs, coursed and shaped slates to French pavilion roof with ornate cast-iron brattishing at apex.
INTERIOR: modernised classrooms.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped stone walls to N and W, steel railings. Capped square section gatepiers to N, W and E. Rubble stone boundary wall to W, harled wall and outbuildings to S.
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