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Latitude: 55.6351 / 55°38'6"N
Longitude: -3.6267 / 3°37'35"W
OS Eastings: 297694
OS Northings: 639149
OS Grid: NS976391
Mapcode National: GBR 3338.MS
Mapcode Global: WH5ST.8M8F
Plus Code: 9C7RJ9PF+28
Entry Name: School, Covington
Listing Name: Former School, Covington Road, Covington
Listing Date: 27 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390718
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44023
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390718
Location: Covington
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Parish: Covington
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: School building
Later 19th century. Single storey, basically rectangular plan, school. Painted rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with moulded bargeboards at overhanging gables. Stop-chamfered doorcases, single, bi- and tri-partite 2-pane timber sash and case windows with chamfered margins; single coped stack.
FRONT ELEVATION: main block to centre with 2 slightly advanced gabled bays, each with bipartite window and diamond pattern moulded ornament at gable, singlewindow to left return, tripartite to right return; slightly lower block set-back to left with door and window; small entrance porch set-back to right with door, window to right return.
REAR ELEVATION: plain.2 rooflights, window to far right.
INTERIOR: not seen, although likely to retain original fittings such as boarded panelling, doors etc.
This former school is of particular interest because of its relationship with the adjacent former School House (85 Covington Road, itself the original school according to the 1862 OS map) and the row of cottages opposite.
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