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Latitude: 55.8034 / 55°48'12"N
Longitude: -5.0256 / 5°1'32"W
OS Eastings: 210467
OS Northings: 660818
OS Grid: NS104608
Mapcode National: GBR FFZC.LRW
Mapcode Global: WH1LT.SD1F
Plus Code: 9C7PRX3F+8Q
Entry Name: Old School House, Mount Stuart House
Listing Name: Mount Stuart, Old School House Including Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 20 February 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391812
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45029
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391812
Location: Kingarth
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute
Parish: Kingarth
Traditional County: Buteshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 19th century. Near-symmetrical 2-storey, 7-bay Old English style half-timbered former school; subdivided to form pair of cottages (left cottage 4-bay, right cottage 3-bay; single storey wing recessed at centre). Harl-pointed red rubble sandstone at ground; red sandstone dressings; half-timbering at 1st floor. Raised base course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Tooled red rubble quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to slightly droved, chamfered openings; projecting cills; chamfered mullions. Harl-pointed rubble at rear.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tripartite windows at ground in 2 bays flanking centre; tripartite windows at ground in slightly advanced, penultimate bays to outer left and right; bipartite windows centred in half-timbered gableheads above. 2-bay entrance wing recessed to outer left comprising boarded timber door off-set to right of centre, single window off-set to left. Boarded timber door centred in pitched entrance porch recessed to outer right.
Leaded 2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Red clay-tile roof; terracotta ridge detailing; coped ashlar ridge stacks; circular terracotta cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALL: round-arched rubble coping to harl-pointed random rubble wall dividing boundaries at rear.
An unusual style in its Scottish context but relatively common within the confines of Mount Stuart (see separate list entries for East Lodge, Kerrylamont Cottage and Kerrycroy Village). Here, note the leaded glazing, bracketed eaves, half-timbering and terracotta ridge detailing
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