Description

Circa 1840, extended 1870. Single storey school with Tudor details adjoining schoolhouse to NE. Squared rubble with dressed ashlar margins and quoins. Base course.

SW ELEVATION: broad recessed bay to centre with bipartite window to left and dominant shouldered stack in catslide roof to right; advanced gable to outer right with bipartite window to centre and boarded timber door to left with blind oculus in gablehead; further gabled bay to outer left with small window and further window on return to right of lower gable projecting to left of centre, and window to right, cast-iron bell and bracket to right in gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation with schoolhouse projecting to outer left. 3 regularly disposed windows and lower recessed bay to outer right with boarded timber door and letterbox fanlight.

SE ELEVATION: advanced gable to centre with double bipartite window and louvered roundel in gablehead, 2 bipartite windows on return to right and further bipartite window in recessed bay beyond to right, schoolhouse adjoining to outer right. Bipartite window with adjacent window beyond in bay to left.

12- and 16-pane glazing pattern (some lying-pane) in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with battered string course and polygonal cans; ashlar-coped sawtooth skews with moulded block skewputts; small cast-iron ridge ventilators.

PLAYSHED: piended and slated rubble playshed with cast-iron columns.

Statement of Interest

The NSA reported "an average number of scholars" of "about 70". The attached schoolhouse is listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772841

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  For the Record
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)