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Latitude: 55.6509 / 55°39'3"N
Longitude: -3.1898 / 3°11'23"W
OS Eastings: 325225
OS Northings: 640348
OS Grid: NT252403
Mapcode National: GBR 6353.EZ
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Z769
Plus Code: 9C7RMR26+93
Entry Name: Old Schoolhouse, Tweed Green, Peebles
Listing Name: Tweed Green and School Brae, Former English School with Gate and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384901
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39280
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384901
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: School building
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.
Adjoins former Burgh School to N, now craft workshops.
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