Girdleness Road, Tullos Primary School

Tullos Primary School, designed by J Ogg Allan, was built between 1939 and 1950. This symmetrical, Art Deco building features a flat-roofed E-plan with a long central wing extending to the rear. The design includes two-storey recessed clerestories in the linking wings on the northwest elevation and bowed ends to the central spine. A central glazed bow tower is located at the rear. A swimming pool complex was added to the rear in 1978.

The school is constructed from coursed squared granite rubble, with harling on the linking wings to the northwest and the end of the projecting wing at the rear. It features predominantly concrete lintels and cills, along with some concrete margins, quoins, and band courses. The building has a base course, a ground floor lintel course in some sections, and coped parapets, with a projecting blocking course at the bow ends and flanking wings at the rear. The windows are mainly large horizontally oriented Crittal windows, with some vertically oriented and corner windows.

On the northwest elevation, there is a canted advanced central 9-bay section, with pilaster strips dividing the central three bays and a doorway at the center. A cantilevered concrete canopy extends between the ground and first floor. To the left, there is a recessed 8-bay linking section with a single-storey projection on the ground floor, while to the right, there is a recessed 9-bay linking section with a small single-storey projection. The ends of the linking sections have single and two-storey, two and four-bay projecting sections, with recessed bowed ends on the outer left and right.

The southeast elevation features a central 5-bay section with a stepped parapet and a central glazed bowed tower. The ground floor includes a large projecting hall wing, with 12-bay two-storey wings on either side that also have bowed ends. The left wing has a canted canopy at the ground floor, although the glazing is now missing.

The building has predominantly coated metal windows, a flat roof, and a tall tapered brick chimney projecting from the center of the roof. It also features a mixture of plastic and cast iron rainwater goods.