Description

F D Robertson, architect, dated 1875, additions, J D
Corrigall, Keith, 1905. Rambling, single storey school
with French Gothic detailing. Harled, polished ashlar
margins and dressings. Entrance in centre N elevation under
Gothic ashlar gablet with incised decoration in base of
advanced tower with paired Gothic lights in 1st stage and
bellcast truncated spire. Flanking 2-light pointed-headed
windows under gables with further incised decoration in
tympana. Similar fenestration in S elevation; also paired
square-headed windows with shaped margins; various oculi.
Decorative cast-iron apex finials; coped end and ridge stacks;
piended slate roofs.
Low coped rubble walls surround school and playground.

Statement of Interest

Monogram BPS on E gable (Botriphnie Public School). Tower

above entrance would probably originally have terminated

with decorative cast-iron brattishing. 1905 additions

included a gymnasium donated by a patron.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17829622

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)