Description

1851; altered 1954. Single storey, 3-bay former school with small gabled porch and belfry. Squared and snecked rubble with long squared rubble quoins. Pointed arch doors with voussoirs. Square windows.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Porch to centre bay with boarded timber door and plate glass fanlight, round clock in small square timber housing in gablehead and small stone belfry above comprising rubble base straddling ridge and giving way to small rounded buttressed arch with pointed, battered coping; blocked opening on return to right appearing as second door. Windows in flanking bays.

S ELEVATION: window in gabled bay to left of centre, and further window to centre.

N ELEVATION: window in gabled bay to right of centre, and door immediately to left.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: blank dry-dashed elevation with 2 steel buttresses.

6-pane glazing pattern in timber windows. Graded grey slates. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

Statement of Interest

Built as a school, which closed in 1898 when pupils attended a new combined school at Ballinlochan, the building subsequently became a laundry, and was converted for use as the village hall in 1954.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774555

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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