Description

Bernard Widdows, 1929. 1 and 2-storey, courtyard-plan Queen Anne style school. Red brick with artificial stone dressings. Base course; windows in recessed bays with stone cills flanked by giant order pilasters with stone entablatures to principal blocks; stone architraves to doorways; stone string course and coping to single storey, flat-roofed blocks; eaves course and cornice to principal blocks.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced, central hall and 2-storey pavilions with single storey flanking blocks. 5-bay central block with large windows; tripartite windows to both storeys to pavilions; 4-bay single storey blocks with deeply recessed doorways flanking pavilions; single windows to remaining bays.

N, E AND W ELEVATIONS: full-length, recent, lean-to extension to widen classrooms; red and yellow painted pine boarding to walls; glass roof.

COURTYARD: central enclosed courtyard surrounded by glazed corridor to class rooms; box dormers to N, E and W; central paved area with bronze fountain of "Mother and Child" by Thomas Whalen.

Small-paned, timber pivot windows. Red tiled piended roof swept at eaves.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807569

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)