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School, Dalmonach Works, Main Street, Bonhill

A Category B Listed Building in Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9856 / 55°59'8"N

Longitude: -4.5727 / 4°34'21"W

OS Eastings: 239597

OS Northings: 679949

OS Grid: NS395799

Mapcode National: GBR 0L.VYGW

Mapcode Global: WH3NB.QTP6

Plus Code: 9C7QXCPG+7W

Entry Name: School, Dalmonach Works, Main Street, Bonhill

Listing Name: Bonhill, 120-122 (Even Nos), Main Street and Adjoining Workshop

Listing Date: 29 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389632

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43224

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Bonhill, Main Street, Dalmonach Works, School

ID on this website: 200389632

Location: Bonhill

County: West Dunbartonshire

Electoral Ward: Leven

Parish: Bonhill

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Circa 1835. Terraced school and former school house 2-storey and 3-bay flatted house with tower gothic-detailed schoolroom (workshop). Droved, squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar margins. Eaves band.

E (MAIN) ELEVATION: NOS 120-122: 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical house; curved rubble forestair to door at 1st floor centre, modern door, blocked fanlight; flanking windows. Ground floor, door at centre under forestair, flanking windows; modern windows. Rubble coped enclosure to outer left, raggle of former single storey adjoining gable on end wall.

WORKSHOP: former schoolroom adjoining to right slightly advanced;

4 pointed arched bays symmetrically disposed with 5th pointed arch door to outer left; droved margins; windows now all blocked, boarded door, blocked fanlight.

Modern timber top-hopper windows on house, blocked windows on workshop. Grey slate roof, broad industrial brick, coped apex stacks, octagonal cans; blocked rooflight on workshop ridge, octagonal louvred metal ventilation chimney at centre, small red sandstone apex stack on outer apex.

Statement of Interest

The buildings were built as the school and school house of the Dalmonach Works, it adjoins the gable of the works and is sited at the main gates. The Mechanics Institute and Library were housed here and it is likely that the hall was also used as a Sunday School. The school house is in residential use and the hall serves as a joiners workshop. There is little remaining of the original Dalmonach Works, with many alterations and demolitions.

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