Description
Circa 1825. Single storey, 4-bay, and 2-storey, 3-bay, former schoolroom and schoolhouse. Coursed dark rubble, polished ashlar margins; coursers at right (coursed rubble at sides), slate roof.
S ELEVATION: single storey schoolroom set-back at left; 3 sash and case windows, plate glass lower sash, 2-pane upper; 1 blocked window at right; gable at left with coped stack.
HOUSE: at right, slightly later; margined angles, base course, cill course at 1st floor, eaves course, coped skews, moulded stacks, 12-pane sash and case glazing. Central doorpiece with consoles and block pediment, fanlight; flanking windows with bracketted cills and moulded margins. 3 margined windows at 1st floor flanked by large affixed letters 'YMCA'.
N ELEVATION: modern additions at ground floor, three 12-pane sash and case windows at 1st floor.
Statement of Interest
Buildings erected as school by Thomas Erskine of Linthlathen during the 1820s; gifted to Broughty Ferry YMCA (established 1866) in 1874 by their president, Alexander Jefferson Buist.
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Recommended Books
Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey