Description

1812; heightened by 1 storey 1861. Symmetrical 2-storey 3-bay former school. Whinstone with long and short cream sandstone ashlar dressings; harled to sides and rear. Chamfered arrises.

S ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay at centre with later broad 2-leaf boarded door at ground; window at 1st floor and framed panel in gablehead (St Andrew and cross). Flanking bays with windows at ground and smaller windows at 1st floor, hard under eaves.

W ELEVATION: gabled; windows to both floors displaced to left. Apex stack.

E ELEVATION: gabled; windows to both floors displaced to right; trefoil at centre of 1st floor. Apex stack. 6-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple slates; ashlar coped skews; corbel skewputts to centre gable (finial missing); coped ashlar dressed stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

GATE: to immediate E; materials as above. Boarded door in ashlar coped wall; panel above door with shield bearing letter G and large ball finial.

Statement of Interest

Built as the Grammar School - thus the G above the side gate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17845931

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)