Description

A and W Reid, dated 1854. Long gabled E facing single and
2-storey former school with teacher's dwellings, now 2
houses. Various wings extend at rear. Rubble, tooled ashlar
dressings.
Near centre gabled projecting porch (entrance to The
Wardens) with apex bellcote, flanking 2-bay former class
rooms and projecting outer gabled wings. Further entrances to
N and W (The Leas). Varied glazing with some original 8-pane
sashes surviving at The Leas.
Tall coped wallhead stacks articulate frontage, coped ridge
stacks; slate roofs.
GARDEN WALLS: coped rubble retaining walls in garden sloping
in front of building; further rubble walls enclose property.

Statement of Interest

School established by General Assembly of Church of Scotland

who helped to pay teachers' salaries. The Wardens was the

boys' part of the school with resident school master, and

The Leas for the girls with school mistress.

School attended by James Ramsay Macdonald.

The Leas Cottage, a very small bungalow in garden of The

Leas, is not included in listing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827443

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record