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School Brae Fairlie School And Gate Piers, Fairlie

A Category B Listed Building in Largs, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7575 / 55°45'26"N

Longitude: -4.8535 / 4°51'12"W

OS Eastings: 221042

OS Northings: 655254

OS Grid: NS210552

Mapcode National: GBR 31.B7PF

Mapcode Global: WH2N7.FK13

Plus Code: 9C7QQ44W+XJ

Entry Name: School Brae Fairlie School And Gate Piers, Fairlie

Listing Name: Fairlie Village Fairlie School and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 26 February 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339137

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7292

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200339137

Location: Largs

County: North Ayrshire

Electoral Ward: North Coast and Cumbraes

Parish: Largs

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

J J Stevenson of London, architect, with H Walker of
Fairlie. Dated 1887. Single storey, set on slope, with
basement raised at west. Scottish Jacobean details.
Essentially cruciform-plan, with crow-stepped gables, but
eastern re-entrant angles filled with low flat-roofed
rooms. Polygonal masonry at basement, bullfaced and
snecked ashlar above: polished dressings. West elevation:
inner gable has central stepped buttress supporting corbelled
pedimented and finialed birdcage bellcote 2 tall pedimented
windows. Basement door and ground floor bipartite to left of
gable, decorative datestone to right. Continuous string
over basement, wide eaves band above string.
Bipartite below relieving arches in north and south gables
and tall stack over south east and north east angles. East
elevation has several openings; long outbuilding extends
from projecting inner bay. Windows all have small panes and
are mostly in roll-moulded architraves. Crow-stepped gables.
Slate roofs.
Playground enclosed by rubble-built walls; square ashlar
gatepiers to west with pyramidal caps, decorative
wrought-iron gates and railings at steps.

Statement of Interest

Opened 22.11.1887.

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