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Latitude: 54.7949 / 54°47'41"N
Longitude: -4.612 / 4°36'43"W
OS Eastings: 232173
OS Northings: 547579
OS Grid: NX321475
Mapcode National: GBR GJZ1.45F
Mapcode Global: WH3V4.4Q2Z
Plus Code: 9C6QQ9VQ+X5
Entry Name: The Old School, 2 Main Street, Elrig
Listing Name: Elrig, 2 Main Street, the Old School with Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350645
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16827
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350645
Location: Mochrum
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Mochrum
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Later 19th century. Former school and adjoining schoolhouse. 2-storey, with 1st floor breaking eaves. 3-bay traditional Wigtown house; single storey school adjoined to S, forming L-plan. Painted rubble.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: HOUSE TO RIGHT: door at centre. Windows in outer bays at ground floor. Windows, in gabled dormerheads, at 1st floor. SCHOOL TO LEFT: window to right. Gable to left; lean-to adjoined, with doors to N and S.
S ELEVATION: 3 regularly spaced classroom windows.
N ELEVATION: gabled and blank.
Timber sash and case windows; 4-pane glazing to house; mainly plate-glass glazing in 2-light windows to school. Red sandstone coped skews. Painted rubble stacks, with red sandstone copes; gablehead to house, ridge to N jamb of school. Mainly small grey slates; modern
roofing to S pitch of school. Red sandstone ridging. Rubble coped rubble walls to E.
No longer in use as a school. A square-plan "school" is marked on this site on the OS Map of 1848; however, the evidence of the fabric and current plan form suggests that the present building is a replacement on the same site.
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