Description

Later 19th century, post 1865. Single storey, L-plan, Gothic school building, now community centre; hall with transept and porch and modern addition at N end. Rubble with ashlar margins and dressings; round-headed windows, chamfered reveals. Base course; stugged quoins; eaves cornice on alternating bracketted corbels.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: main body of school with gabled transept at mid-way point, porch in re-entrant angle to left, lower bay to outer right (forming L-plan with transept), modern gabled addition in sympathetic style to outer right. 3-bay body of school to outer left, shouldered wallhead stack slightly advanced at centre with flanking round-headed windows. Gabled porch with round-headed, chamfered door on S face, 2-leaf, hinged and boarded door, plaque in gablehead 'This tablet is placed here by the Free Church congregation of Rosneath in grateful remembrance of the late Mr & Mrs Carne Campbell to whose liberality they are indebted for the erection of this school and adjacent schoolmaster?s house. 2nd June 1850? ; ashlar coping to skews, open cross-finial, round-headed window to right on transept. Large 3-light window on gable of transept. Lower gabled block to right, single window on E elevation, gable end formerly facing N now masked by modern, gabled block with entrance, compatible style, unsympathetic materials, dry-dash with reconstituted stone.

W ELEVATION: 5-bay main body of school; windows, bipartite, single, tripartite arranged 2-1-3-1-2. Louvred, small triangulated lead ventilation dormer, lead ridge ventilator.

S ELEVATION: gable with 3-light window, hoodmould; ashlar, gabled bellcote, sawtooth coping, trefoil finial. Transept recessed to right with gabled porch in re-entrant angle.

N ELEVATION: gable with blocked door at centre.

Leaded windows; plate glass for lower panes of W elevation. Grey slate roof with lead flashings, saw-tooth ashlar coping; shouldered wallhead stack on E elevation, ashlar octagonal can with large octagonal cap; tall yellow brick stack on ashlar pedestal on transept.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rubble wall with harl pointing, boulder coping bounding N side of site; low ashlar plinth wall with simple railings along School Road. Harled drum piers with semicircular caps.

Statement of Interest

The building was originally built as the Free Presbyterian Church school and was largely endowed by the Carne Campbell family. The adjacent schoolmaster?s house is listed separately. The building is now the Cove and Kilcreggan Community Centre.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770030

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