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Latitude: 54.9159 / 54°54'57"N
Longitude: -4.6117 / 4°36'42"W
OS Eastings: 232696
OS Northings: 561036
OS Grid: NX326610
Mapcode National: GBR GHZQ.B9B
Mapcode Global: WH3TK.4P6R
Plus Code: 9C6QW98Q+98
Entry Name: School And Schoolhouse, Main Street, Kirkcowan
Listing Name: Kirkcowan Village Kirkcowan School Schoolhouse and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 30 January 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346095
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13101
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kirkcowan, Main Street, School And Schoolhouse
ID on this website: 200346095
Location: Kirkcowan
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Kirkcowan
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure School building
Later 19th century. Single storey U-plan school building with attached single storey and attic schoolhouse to W. All squared whinstone rubble with polished red sandstone rusticated quoins and dressings.
SCHOOL: symmetrical S elevation with 4-bay centre flanked by advanced gabled end bays. 2 bipartite windows to centre flanked by doors, (that to W now part blocked and converted to window), outer bays with bipartite windows. All 3-light sash windows. To rear single storey rendered extensions.
SCHOOLHOUSE: 3 + 1 bay cottage adjoining School at E, right bay with tall bipartite window with gablet head. Central door with timber gablet porch, panelled door with 3 pane fanlight. Flanking this, bipartite windows, sash and case with plate glass glazing. To attic, 3 timber gabled dormers, timber bipartites with small pane glazing. Both have good graded slate roofs with deep overhanging timber bracketted eaves, coped end and axial stacks with tall square cans. Louvred vents to school and decorative downpipes. Rubble boundary wall to schoolyard and schoolhouse, cement pointed to roadside.
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