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Latitude: 55.0573 / 55°3'26"N
Longitude: -4.585 / 4°35'5"W
OS Eastings: 234990
OS Northings: 576696
OS Grid: NX349766
Mapcode National: GBR 4C.RDM9
Mapcode Global: WH3SZ.J4WV
Plus Code: 9C7Q3C48+W2
Entry Name: Bargrennan School And Schoolhouse
Listing Name: Bargrennan, the Schoolhouse
Listing Date: 3 August 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350897
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17048
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350897
Location: Minnigaff
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Minnigaff
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Early to earlier 19th century. Single storey former school and schoolhouse; 3-bay house to N, slighly lower school adjoined to S. Rubble; painted to N. Granite rybats and quoins; polished granite margins to E elevation of house. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: house to right: double-leaf boarded door, with letterbox fanlight, at centre; windows in outer bays. School slightly recessed to left: 2 windows; gabled proch to left, with boarded door to right to N return and window to E.
W ELEVATION: windows in outer bays of house; gabled porch at centre, with door to left to N return, window to W and small flat-roofed addition, with window, to S return. 2 windows to school.
N ELEVATION: blank.
S ELEVATION: blank.
Largely 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing to E elevation of house. Red sandstone coped skews, mutual to W pitch.
Coped gablehead stacks to house. Small grey slates. 2 flat-roofed dormer windows to E pitch of house. 2 rooflights to W pitch of school.
INTERIOR: boarded dado in school.
Bargrennan School and Schoolhoue were built by subscription; the
School could accommodate 60 pupils in 1895. It ceased use as a school in 1954 and the former classroom is currently used as a private workshop (1881).
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