Boiler House, Coull Primary School is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 September 2003.
Boiler House, Coull Primary School
- WRENN ID
- twisted-wattle-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 September 2003
- OS grid reference
- NJ 514 032
- Coordinates
- 57.11796, -2.8039
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Coull Primary School, built around 1900, is a high, single-storey, three-bay schoolhouse designed in a plain Jacobethan style. It features prominent conical vents on the roof ridge and is part of a walled group that surrounds a central playground. The building is constructed from squared red granite with grey granite quoins and margins, and has shouldered coping on the end gables. The windows are stone-mullioned and bipartite.
The main schoolhouse block is aligned east-west and has plain rectangular windows on the south side, a bipartite window on the west gable end, and an entrance door with a later lean-to addition on the east gable end. There are blind oculi on the gableheads. A similar three-bay block is attached to the rear of the east-west block. Large gabled windows extend beyond the eaves on the east and west side elevations, while the north gable end is blank.
Inside, the schoolhouse features dado height, boarded pine panelling, along with timber-doored and lined wall presses.
Adjacent to the main building is the teacher's house, a two-storey, two-bay, square-plan structure facing south. It has a pyramidal roof and a cat-slide roof with overhanging eaves above a timber porch on the left bay of the south elevation. The right bay is slightly advanced and gabled. The windows are boarded with sash and case frames, and the upper storey windows are set in gables that break the eaves. The house is covered in grey slates with lead flashing and has tall wallhead stacks on the east, north, and rear elevations.
To the northeast of the main building is the boiler house, a free-standing, single-storey, two-bay rectangular-plan building with a hipped roof. The playground elevation is obscured by a later lean-to rain shelter. It features a large window at the centre of the west side elevation and a gable that breaks the eaves, terminating in a boiler stack at the rear. The boiler house has 12-pane sash and case windows, grey slates, lead flashing, and coped skews.
The boundary wall surrounding the property is made of roughly pointed, squared granite rubble and topped with large coping stones.
Local climate
Boiler House, Coull Primary School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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