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Latitude: 55.5478 / 55°32'52"N
Longitude: -2.2844 / 2°17'3"W
OS Eastings: 382152
OS Northings: 628268
OS Grid: NT821282
Mapcode National: GBR D4H9.73
Mapcode Global: WH8Y7.WTCC
Plus Code: 9C7VGPX8+46
Entry Name: Primary School & Playsheds, Town Yetholm
Listing Name: Primary School Including Playsheds
Listing Date: 29 November 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348981
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15400
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348981
Location: Yetholm
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Kelso and District
Parish: Yetholm
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Building
Clark & Balmin, wright and mason of Kelso, 1831, with later alterations. Single storey irregular-plan school (formerly incorporating schoolhouse), with 1992 addition to S. Rubble whinstone with contrasting broached sandstone ashlar. Long and short quoins and surrounds to openings; chamfered reveals; swept and overhanging eaves.
N ELEVATION: 6-bay. Advanced gabled entrance in penultimate bay from left; doorway with stone pentice canopy; boarded door; 2-pane fanlight; oculus set in gablehead. Tripartite windows breaking eaves in bays to right of centre and outer right. Pentice-canopied tripartite windows in remaining bays.
S ELEVATION: new harled wing adjoining to outer right; 2 groups of 3 windows; each group comprising lower central window flanked by windows breaking eaves in swept piended roofs.
W ELEVATION: 3 bays recessed from right. Single window breaking eaves in swept piended roof in bay to outer right. Flat-roofed enclosed porch in central bay; boarded door to left return. Tripartite window in bay to outer left.
E ELEVATION: enlarged tripartite window; new harled wing adjoining to outer left.
INTERIOR: much altered; plain plaster cornice to main schoolroom.
Timber sash and case windows; variety of glazing patterns, including some leaded lights. Purple-grey slate roof.
PLAYSHEDS: rectangular-plan piend-roofed playsheds and former cloakrooms, symmetrical along N-S axis; materials and detailing as school; original cast-iron columns replaced by steel columns; scalloped conical ventilator cap to E.
The Rev John Baird, writing in the NSA described the parish schoolhouse as "without exception, the handsomest building of the kind in the county".
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