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Prestonfield Primary School, 9 Peffermill Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9308 / 55°55'50"N

Longitude: -3.1583 / 3°9'29"W

OS Eastings: 327727

OS Northings: 671462

OS Grid: NT277714

Mapcode National: GBR 8WP.RG

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.G687

Plus Code: 9C7RWRJR+8M

Entry Name: Prestonfield Primary School, 9 Peffermill Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 9 Peffermill Road, Prestonfield Primary School

Listing Date: 29 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389562

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43163

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389562

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Bernard Widdows, 1929. 1 and 2-storey, courtyard-plan Queen Anne style school. Red brick with artificial stone dressings. Base course; windows in recessed bays with stone cills flanked by giant order pilasters with stone entablatures to principal blocks; stone architraves to doorways; stone string course and coping to single storey, flat-roofed blocks; eaves course and cornice to principal blocks.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced, central hall and 2-storey pavilions with single storey flanking blocks. 5-bay central block with large windows; tripartite windows to both storeys to pavilions; 4-bay single storey blocks with deeply recessed doorways flanking pavilions; single windows to remaining bays.

N, E AND W ELEVATIONS: full-length, recent, lean-to extension to widen classrooms; red and yellow painted pine boarding to walls; glass roof.

COURTYARD: central enclosed courtyard surrounded by glazed corridor to class rooms; box dormers to N, E and W; central paved area with bronze fountain of "Mother and Child" by Thomas Whalen.

Small-paned, timber pivot windows. Red tiled piended roof swept at eaves.

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