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Latitude: 55.6803 / 55°40'49"N
Longitude: -6.5009 / 6°30'3"W
OS Eastings: 117170
OS Northings: 652169
OS Grid: NR171521
Mapcode National: GBR BFBP.WL4
Mapcode Global: WGYH9.3HL7
Plus Code: 9C7MMFJX+4J
Entry Name: Portnahaven School, Portnahaven
Listing Name: Portnahaven School
Listing Date: 26 January 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345237
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12437
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Portnahaven, Portnahaven School
ID on this website: 200345237
Location: Kilchoman
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Parish: Kilchoman
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: School building
William Railton of Kilmarnock, architect. Dated 1878.
Single-storey school, with 2-storey, detached schoolhouse to
south. Rubble built, with yellow ashlar dressings.
School: 3 broad bays; central bay advanced and gabled, with 3 close-spaced windows (tall central light) and flanked by
curved porch (separate boys' and girls' entrances) in
re-entrant angle. Single windows to outer bays. Straight
skews and end stacks.
Schoolhouse: 3 bays with door in central projecting gabled
porch, narrow window above. Straight skews and end stacks.
Most original lying-pane glazing survives; slated roofs.
A good example of an immediately post-education act school,
little altered.
Local slates from Kilchiaran
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