Railings And Janitor?S Lodge, Gates, Gatepiers,Dunnottar Primary School Including Boundary Walls, High Street

Dated 1889, this is a tall, two-story school building of rectangular plan with five bays, designed to appear imposing with a regular arrangement of windows, bracketed cornices, and stepped gables. The school is constructed with roughly-faced stone ashlar, with smoother stone used for corners and window surrounds. The walls themselves are of roughly-faced rubble stone to the sides and rear, with decorative mouldings at the base, window sills, and eaves. The doorways have decorative hoods with carved stops, and blind circular windows with keystones are also present. The window frames feature broad stone mullions and chamfered edges.

The north (principal) elevation is symmetrical. The central bay features a gable with a large, tripartite window carrying a cornice and a small pediment inscribed "1889 DUNNOTTAR PUBLIC SCHOOL." Above this is a similar window with a stepped hoodmould, incorporating a carved panel that rises into the gablehead with a chimney stack. To the left of the central bay is a projecting porch with a stone roof, housing a pair of timber panelled doors, a narrow blocked opening, two windows, and two more windows on the first floor. The right-hand bay mirrors this arrangement. The outer bays are broad gabled sections, each with a tripartite window on both floors, strapwork carving above, and a carved panel in the gablehead.

The south (playground) elevation has a regular arrangement of windows and gabled outer bays, each with a circular window in the gablehead topped with a ball finial. The east and west elevations are largely plain, with a large, bipartite (two-part) window at centre on each floor.

The windows now have replacement glass in an eight- or ten-pane pattern. The building has decorative stone chimney stacks. The roof gables have moulded skewputts. Decorative cast iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers and fixings are also present.

The interior features central corridors leading to classrooms with decorative plaster cornicing, vertically-boarded dado rails, and panelled timber doors. A dog-leg staircase has decorative cast iron balusters and newel posts. Visible ventilation system shafts are present in some classrooms.

The boundary is defined by low stone walls topped with ironwork railings, square finialled gatepiers, and two-leaved gates, all with decorative ironwork. High rubble stone boundary walls also form part of the enclosure.

A single-story and attic janitor's lodge is present, rectangular in plan, with a decorated pedimented dormer and shouldered gablehead stacks.