Description

William Kerr of John Melvin and Son, Alloa, dated 1912. Classical style 2-storey 5-bay school building in playground recessed from street. Red sandstone ashlar; end stacks. Central bellocte; square in section at open arched bell stage (timber) with flanking timber pilasters and detached angle columns; deep cornice with octagonal timber and

leaded dome above; finials at angles. Main roof slated.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: boys entrance, right; girls left, in moulded doorcases with simple cornices supporting elaborately carved Renaissance style pendant scrolls of window architraves directly above. Plain frieze and dentilled main cornice. 4-pane sash and case glazing at 1st, 16-pane sashes at ground. Single storey hall to rear with large 12-pane sash and case windows in tripartite and quadripartite groupings.

Interior not seen

Boundary walls to street with simple cast-iron railings; pair square-plan grey ashlar gatepiers with simple convex pyramid caps.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17837490

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)