St. James' Primary School, St. James Road, Kilwarlin, Hillsborough, County Down

A single-storey four-bay symmetrical former Victorian school dated 1845. Rectangular plan form with rear returns. Located at the junction between Moira Road and St James Road, adjacent to St James (HB19/05/137) Church in Kilwarlin. Pitched natural slate with clay ridge tiles with a pair of ventilation cowls located on the ridge line. Cast-iron half circle gutters with circular downpipes. Red-brick chimney installed as part of the later rear return. Red-brick Flemish bond walling with corbel course at eaves level. Replacement uPVC windows with flat arch lintels and painted sandstone cills. The front door is incorporated into a projecting gabled painted brick porch. Timber sheeted double-leaf Tudor-arched front door with wrought-iron ironmongery. The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged. Centrally located gabled entrance porch; painted brick with chamfered Tudor-arched opening; plain projected string course incorporated into the copings. Timber plaque inscribed with “St James Primary School” surmounted by a “Downshire” plaque inscribed with the date “1845”. The north and south cheeks of the porch have lancet openings with glazed wrought-iron window frames. Two windows either side of the porch. The left gable is symmetrically arranged with a pair of tall lancet arched windows with a centrally located diminutive lancet arched timber louver vent over. The rear elevation has a single window located on the far right with the central and left bays abutted by rear returns. Central gabled return, two bays deep added c.1920, distinctly newer brick but largely matching in details with the earlier block; central single window to the west facing gable; single window to the right on the south face with a single timber casement window to the north face. Earlier gabled return to the left bay single bay deep; single timber framed bi-partite fixed window left of centre on the gable with a timber sheeted door located left of centre on the north face. The right gable is symmetrically arranged with a large square-headed opening centrally located; concrete lintel and cill. Diminutive lancet arched timber louver vent over. Setting: The building is located adjacent to St James’s Church (HB19/05/137). The site at the front is bounded by a modern red-brick wall with modern gates to the vehicular entrance. Original wrought-iron pedestrian gates located adjacent to the front entrance. To the rear of the site is a small car-park with a single storey red-bricked outbuilding with corrugated metal roof; boarded timber doors and timber bargeboards incorporating modern flat-roof toilet block extension to rear. The north and west of the of the site has largely been developed with housing, with further housing opposite the front entrance. Roofing: Natural slate Walling: Red-brick Windows: uPVC RWG: Cast-iron