Description
William Williamson, 1898. Single storey, 3-bay former infant school with 3-gabled elevation and cupola. Rock-faced squared and snecked rubble with polished long and short quoins. Eaves course. Segmental-headed doorway, stylised battlemented parapet, stone transoms and mullions.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Steps up to broad, flat-roofed crenellated porch with segmental-headed doorpiece and curved pediment with cartouche inscribed 'ABBOTSHALL INFANT SCHOOL', deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door with small-pane fanlight; tripartite windows in flanking bays and bipartite windows on returns. Small gable with small tripartite window to centre with square, finialled, 2-stage timber- louvered cupola to ridge behind; larger gables, also with tripartite windows, to flanking bays.
W ELEVATION: small centre gable with timber door and 4-part fanlight to left, and small window to right, small stack to gablehead; flanking larger gables with raised centre transomed tripartite windows.
N ELEVATION: dormer gablet with raised centre tripartite window breaking eaves at centre, 2 bipartite windows in bays to right and door to left with further bipartite window beyond to left. Small, flat- roofed extension abutting to outer left.
S ELEVATION: gablet to centre bay as above, and 2 bipartite windows to right and left of centre, those to right flanking advanced, full- height, shouldered chimney breast breaking eaves and raised above coping.
6-pane glazing pattern over plate glass lower sashes in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar skews with swept skewputts; cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers.
INTERIOR: well-detailed, tailored interior. 2-leaf part-glazed hall door with brass fittings to vestibule/cloakrooms with coat hooks and wash basins, toilet cubicles with boarded timber swing doors. Top-lit centre hall with roof beams and collars, boarded dado, architraved doorways and lintel course. Classrooms with boarded dadoes, plain cornicing and segmental-headed, small-paned windows to centre hall and adjoining classrooms.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN: semi-circular- coped rubble boundary walls and low saddleback-coped boundary walls with railings, ashlar gatepiers with cast-iron gates. S boundary wall with decorative cast-iron drinking fountain with wording 'KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY', made by 'Macfarlanes Pat Foundry Glasgow'.