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Latitude: 56.7164 / 56°42'59"N
Longitude: -2.4679 / 2°28'4"W
OS Eastings: 371457
OS Northings: 758402
OS Grid: NO714584
Mapcode National: GBR X5.0ZC7
Mapcode Global: WH8RK.2F2Y
Plus Code: 9C8VPG8J+HR
Entry Name: St Margaret's Primary School, Blackfriars Street, Montrose
Listing Name: Blackfriars Street, St Margaret's Primary School Including Boundary Walls, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 30 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393393
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46167
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393393
Location: Montrose
County: Angus
Town: Montrose
Electoral Ward: Montrose and District
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: School building
Later 19th century. Single storey, U-plan school building of 4-bay central range framed by gable ended blocks. Sandstone ashlar, base course, eaves band course, chamfered margins, battered cills. Stone mullions.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 4 bipartite windows to centre block, flanking gable ends with tripartites, circular panel with quatrefoil with stylised relieving arch above, lancet window in gablehead. Porch to right set back.
W ELEVATION: 4 bays, porch to left, 3 bipartites to right with blank panel to left of outer bay.
E ELEVATION: 4 bays, door to right with square 6-pane fanlight, 3 bipartites to left with blank panel to right of outer bay.
S ELEVATION: gable end to left with tripartite window and door. Centre block with 2 windows to left partly obscured by modern flat-roofed addition, 2 bipartite windows to right. Gable end to right with tripartite window and door, window in return to left.
12-pane timber framed windows to sides and some to rear, modern multi-pane windows to front and some to rear. Graded grey slates to pitched roofs. 2 ridge ventilators with square louvred base and spire to central ranges. Stone skews, gablet skewputts to front. Ridge stacks to E and W with 3 polygonal cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low rubble stone walls to left (E) and right (W) with intact cast-iron railings and gates, 3 square section gatepiers with circular panels and quatrefoils upon each face. Modern brick wall extending W. Harled wall to S.
Built on the site of an earlier building (circa 1843) known as Townhead School, it came under the auspices of St Margaret's Roman Catholic school in 1963.
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