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Primary School & Playsheds, Town Yetholm

A Category C Listed Building in Kelso and District, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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