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Latitude: 54.7584 / 54°45'30"N
Longitude: -4.5785 / 4°34'42"W
OS Eastings: 234176
OS Northings: 543439
OS Grid: NX341434
Mapcode National: GBR HJ24.1J9
Mapcode Global: WH3VB.MNYG
Plus Code: 9C6QQC5C+9H
Entry Name: Primary School And Schoolhouse, High Street, Port William
Listing Name: Port William, High Street, Port William School and Schoolhouse
Listing Date: 11 November 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 353974
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB19580
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200353974
Location: Mochrum
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Mochrum
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Post 1872; modern alterations and addition. School and adjoining schoolhouse. 2-storey L-plan house; tall single storey school adjoined to E. Squared and snecked whinstone masonry. Red sandstone ashlar dressings; chamfered margins; quoins; eaves and base courses. All
openings segmental-arched.
N (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: HOUSE TO RIGHT: gable advanced to left, with ashlar apex finial; bipartite window to both floors and small square panel in gablehead to N; window at ground floor and window with gabled dormerhead at 1st floor to W return. Square-plan full-height porch, with swept pyramidal roof, in re-entrant angle to right; hoodmoulded door, with plate glass fanlight, to N; diminutive bipartite window above at 1st floor. SCHOOL TO LEFT: gabled porch at centre, with ashlar apex finial; door, with blinded fanlight and decorative iron hinges, to E return; hoodmoulded bipartite window and small square panel in gablehead to N. 2 bipartite windows to left. Modern low flat-roofed addition to right, between porch and advanced gabled of house; modern windows inserted in elevation above, one to right breaking eaves.
W ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground floor; window at 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: gable to right; tall transomed tripartite window; circular panel in gablehead. Modern addition adjoined to left and to left of gable. Plate glass glazing in sash and case windows to house. Modern glazing, with small-pane pattern, to school; 8-pane sash and case glazing to porch window. Red sandstone coped skews; moulded skewends. Red sandstone ashlar coped stacks; ridge between school and
house, gablehead to house. Red sandstone block detail to apex of E gable. Slightly graded large grey slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 axial ventilators. Several octagonal cans.
BOUNDARY AND GARDEN WALLS: rubble coped rubble walls; low wall, surmounted by modern railings, to playground to N.
Port William School is still in use as a school.
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