Description

1766; heightened by 1 storey and altered 1878; further alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey and attic 5-bay former school. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings; harled to sides and rear. Quoin strips, chamfered arrises.

S ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay at centre with later doorway flanked by closet windows; deep-set boarded door and 3-pane flanlight; hoodmould stepping over framed panel; flattened pointed-arch window at 1st floor (now bipartite) and framed panel in gablehead (3 fish - town crest); finial. Flanking bays with narrow windows to both floors; outer bays with windows to both floors and canted piend-roofed timber dormers.

W ELEVATION: gabled; windows to both floors displaced to left. Apex stack.

E ELEVATION: gabled; windows to all floors displaced to right; apex stack.

Multi-pane timber sash and case windows; some plate glass and replacements. Purple-grey slates; ashlar coped skews; gablet skewputts; coped ashlar dressed harled stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

GATE AND BOUNDARY WALL: to immediate W; ashlar doorpiece with shouldered open doorway; roll-moulded arrises; open timber gate; cornice and parapet with gabled central panel. Whinstone wall with saddleback ashlar coping.

Statement of Interest

Adjoins former Burgh School to N, now craft workshops.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645137

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)