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Summary

Description

Donald Ross (Thoms and Wilkie), 1926-8. 2- and 3-storey and basement school. Courtyard-plan with central hall.

N ELEVATION: advanced entrance approach by footbridge and

flanked by metal lamps. Open segmental pediment, enclosing

armorial, on brackets decorated with lion heads and faces.

Paterae and keystone to door surround. Canted sides.

2-storey E and 2-storey and basement W, 5-bay wings swept

back to each side, centre 3 having lower floor windows in

recessed groups of 4s, paired horizontal 1st floor windows.

Cornice and blocking course. Stair bays advanced at angles,

ground floor doors with flanking arched lights, tripartite

and segmental wallhead feature.

S ELEVATION: 3-storey and basement, 38-bay rendered brick with

ashlar cill and band courses. Rock-faced basement, blind

except 5 lights and 2 play shelters on stone-clad piers.

Single and bipartite windows over. Advanced centre defined by

2 pairs of ashlar bays with arched recesses, end stair bays

similar. Central oculus with green tiled infill.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: rendered flat-roofed returns from N and

S blocks linked by reinforced-concrete corridors and 5-light

mullioned toilet blocks with parapet and pavilion-roofed

belvedere. New wings (not listed) added to W elevation.

COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: bisected by hall. Rendered classroom N

elevations (S face of N block). Corridors line S, E and W

elevations, reinforced concrete with glazed and rendered

infill. Flat roofs. Clerestory lights to hall.

Small square clock cupola with lead roof and globe finial.

Roofs slate over classrooms, flat concrete over corridors

and stairs.

Metal-framed hopper glazing.

INTERIOR as built. Panelled war memorial in entrance.

Panelled hall with suspended barrel-vaulted ceiling and

folding partition.

JANITOR'S HOUSE, the former lodge of Ashcliffe, 1850 by

Charles Wilson for W E Baxter, MP altered by Thoms and

Wilkie. Single storey and attic, 2-storey and attic rear,

ashlar. Original 2-bay arcade to Perth Road, blind attic

storey. Canted bay to W, 3-storey S and W elevations,

bipartite attic windows breaking eaves. Wallhead stack,

piended slate roof, sash and case windows.

Low boundary wall with railings. 3 square chamfered gatepiers.

Modern gates.

Statement of Special Interest

So arranged that every classroom had a S elevation.

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