Description

Late 19th century with later alterations and additions. Single storey with advanced gabled ends, symmetrical 13-bay former infant school in Queen Anne style with octagonal, domed bellcote with weather vane to centre. Red brick (yellow brick to rear) with polished ashlar sandstone dressings. Base course; cill course; band course above windows; recessed round arch to central bay of gables; band course above; eaves course; quoins.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 13-bay, grouped 3-7-3. Stop-moulded architrave to doorway in central bay with carved inscription, 'INFANT SCHOOL'; with deeply carved swan neck pediment; 2-leaf timber panelled door. Window in each of 3 flanking bays. Venetian windows (arched blocked) to advanced gabled bays to outer left and right. Tall brick stacks to re-entrant angles.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: symmetrical 11-bay, grouped 3-5-3. Slightly advanced, flat-roofed 5-bay group to centre: tripartite window in bay to centre. Small window, set wide, in each bay flanking. Boarded door to extreme flanking bays. 3 lights to gabled bays to outer left and right: Full-height brick stack to outer right.

2-, 12-, 15- and 24-pane timber sash and case windows; small-pane, fixed tripartite window to rear; 8 later large bulbous skylights, evenly disposed to each side of roof. Grey slate roof with fishscale banding; octagonal wooden bellcote with cornice, dome and weather vane; red brick, coped stacks to front; yellow brick coped stacks set to right at rear; ashlar coped skews; cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Now in use as the Midlothian Teachers' Centre.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772112

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)