Ballyclare High School, 31 Rashee Road, Ballyclare, Co Antrim, BT39 9HJ

An attached multi-bay two-storey modern brick schoolhouse, built c.1955, located at the west side of Rashee Road. The schoolhouse is rectangular on plan, facing east, with two-bay two-storey flat-roofed entrance block at the right end and a single-storey flat-roofed block to entire north elevation. Hipped natural slate roof with blue/black clay round ridge tiles, moulded cast-iron gutters with rectangular downpipes (embossed with “4x6”), smooth-rendered projecting eaves. Walling is English Garden Wall-bonded red brick over plinth with concrete dressings. Windows are square-headed uPVC casements with continuous concrete sills and lintels. East elevation is abutted to right end by entrance block; remaining section has three windows to each floor with ground floor surmounted by additional shortened band of windows, with single blocked porthole windows to either side. Entrance block right bay is blank with a concrete flagpole holder to parapet-level, the left bay slightly projects and has a first floor slit-like vertical window over square-headed entrance with a flat-headed concrete canopy. Door is replacement timber and glazed with overlight, concrete lintel, and flanked by two windows. South elevation has tiles corbelled to eaves; band of windows to each floor. West elevation ground floor is abutted to left end by original schoolhouse, ground floor remainder is abutted by single-storey flat-roofed glazed linking block (of no interest). Exposed section ground floor has shortened bands of windows above linking block; first floor has two windows interrupting eaves. North elevation is abutted by single-storey block. Exposed section has one first floor window to left end, band of shortened clerestorey windows to ground floor above abutting block (not externally visible). The original school, built c.1950, is a multi-bay single-storey block with a hipped slated roof and red ridge and hip tiles, square-headed metal casement windows separated by strip band. It is abutted to east end by additional school block and to centre of south elevation by modern extension. Setting The school is situated slightly below road-level in a tarmac parking lot and separated from the pavement by a brick boundary wall with concrete coping, accessed via metal gates. The school block and old school block are located at the southwest of the school complex, which consists of numerous school blocks built between 1960 and 1990.