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Latitude: 58.1678 / 58°10'4"N
Longitude: -6.9123 / 6°54'44"W
OS Eastings: 111247
OS Northings: 930410
OS Grid: NB112304
Mapcode National: GBR 97B4.DNX
Mapcode Global: WGX1R.SYMW
Plus Code: 9CCM539Q+43
Entry Name: Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Listing Name: Loch Croistean Centre
Listing Date: 31 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 353595
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB19269
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lewis, Uig, School And Schoolhouse
ID on this website: 200353595
Location: Uig
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Sgir'Uige agus Ceann a Tuath nan Loch
Parish: Uig
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Built shortly after the Education Act of 1872, as school and schoolhouse combined, variant of a basic pattern seen elsewhere on Lewis. Asymmetrical. Harled, slate roofs with projecting eaves; single or timber-mullioned windows, all small-paned sashes. Prominent stacks. SCHOOL to right, single storey with tall tripartite in front gable, porch recessed on right flank, modern outshot behind.
HOUSE has higher eaves and roof levels, single storey and attic; 2-bay front, bipartite at right, swept-roofed at first floor, single narrow ground floor window to left; corrugated iron porch recessed on left gable, 3 windows above.
Garden and playground walls, all rubble built, as are the square gatepiers (those at roadside are harled).
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