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The Leas, Coulardbank Road, Lossiemouth

A Category B Listed Building in Lossiemouth, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.7164 / 57°42'59"N

Longitude: -3.291 / 3°17'27"W

OS Eastings: 323184

OS Northings: 870361

OS Grid: NJ231703

Mapcode National: GBR L87B.950

Mapcode Global: WH6J1.F92V

Plus Code: 9C9RPP85+HH

Entry Name: The Leas, Coulardbank Road, Lossiemouth

Listing Name: Coulardbank Road, the Wardens and the Leas (Former General Assembly Schools) and Garden Walls

Listing Date: 24 March 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 382734

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37604

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Lossiemouth, Coulardbank Road, The Leas

ID on this website: 200382734

Location: Lossiemouth

County: Moray

Town: Lossiemouth

Electoral Ward: Heldon and Laich

Traditional County: Morayshire

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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.

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