We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 57.1589 / 57°9'32"N
Longitude: -7.3199 / 7°19'11"W
OS Eastings: 78487
OS Northings: 820121
OS Grid: NF784201
Mapcode National: GBR 89BS.S0N
Mapcode Global: WGW5G.JBK7
Plus Code: 9C9J5M5J+H3
Entry Name: Schoolhouse, Lochboisdale, South Uist
Listing Name: Lochboisdale, School and School House with Garden and Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 10 October 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391357
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44722
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391357
Location: South Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Barraigh, Bhatarsaigh, Eirisgeigh agus Uibhist a Deas
Parish: South Uist
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure School building
1909. 2-storey gabled school house, linked at right angles to gabled school. Painted render, base course, painted dressings, stone mullions.
HOUSE: 3-bay, advanced gabled bay to right with bipartite window to each floor, door in narrow less advanced bay in re-entrant angle at
centre with letterbox fanlight, window above with gabled dormerhead, bipartite windows to each floor in recessed bay to left, again breaking eaves at 1st floor. Gabled return to left with window to each floor to left; gable to right of return to right with later lean-to. Single storey service bays to rear and link to school.
SCHOOL: M-gable to road, with right gable slightly advanced. Left gable with gabled ashlar bellcote at apex with weathervane, door to right and bipartite window to left.
Right gable with tall tripartite window. Rear elevation to playground M-gabled, each gable with tall tripartite windows. Gable to right of return elevation, blank to left.
Timber, 8- or 12-pane sash and case windows. Purple slates. Gablehead stacks with coping, clay cans. Coped skews.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.
GARDEN AND BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS: rubble walls, with render- pointing and semicircular coping. Square gatepiers to pedestrian and vehicular gateways.
Built by the School Board of Uist, as declared in a plaque. A substantial village school and school house in compact composition, prominent for its locality.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
