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Snowdon School For Girls, 31 Spittal Street, Stirling

A Category C Listed Building in Stirling, Stirling

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1189 / 56°7'8"N

Longitude: -3.9403 / 3°56'25"W

OS Eastings: 279462

OS Northings: 693492

OS Grid: NS794934

Mapcode National: GBR 1C.LGRK

Mapcode Global: WH4P6.FGWJ

Plus Code: 9C8R4395+HV

Entry Name: Snowdon School For Girls, 31 Spittal Street, Stirling

Listing Name: 31 Spittal Street Snowdon School with Boundary Walls and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 3 February 1978

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 387230

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41135

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200387230

Location: Stirling

County: Stirling

Town: Stirling

Electoral Ward: Stirling North

Traditional County: Stirlingshire

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Description

J W & J Hay, Liverpool, 1855. 4-bay gabled early gothic, 2-storey, U-plan, former school. Part stonecleaned squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, part droved, chamfered arrises, trefoil headed windows. Base course.

N ELEVATION: centre bays slightly recessed framed by advanced outer gables Door in bay to right of centre in re-entrant angle with pointed arch lintel in pointed arched recess. Bordered door with decorative iron work and short flight of steps. Turret above corbelled out in re-entrant angle from flanking gable. Octagonal belfry head (with trefoil headed openings to each face). Tall polygonal slated roof. Small single light to left of turret. Bay to left of centre with small square headed lights at ground and altered window at 1st floor.

Advanced outer bays: to left; paired bipartites below, stepped tripartite above, to right; single light and tripartite windows below, stepped 5-light window with relieving arch below.

S ELEVATION: extensions and extensive alterations to rear.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: squared and snecked sandstone walls with ashlar saddleback coping. Square ashlar gatepiers with chamfered arrises, pyramidal caps and 1 incised with 'Snowdon School'.

Leaded glazing, diamond-and square-pane to N elevation; Timber sash and case with plate glass and small-pane glazing to rear. Graded grey slate roof

Statement of Interest

The building has always been used as a school and now is also a residential home for girls. Collegiate gothic contribution to a varied streetscape.

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