Ancillary Structure, Schoolhouse, Glen Tanar

Ancillary Structure, Schoolhouse, Glen Tanar

A complex of educational and ancillary buildings dating from the later 19th century, designed by George Truefitt. The group comprises a single-storey school, a two-storey schoolhouse, an ancillary courtyard block, a play shed, and boundary walls with gatepiers.

The school is a single-storey, two-bay building constructed in rough-faced, squared and snecked pink granite with finely finished margins and sloping cills. The entrance elevation faces east and is asymmetrical: the left bay is blank, while the right bay contains a round-arched doorway with timber door and a flanking bipartite window, with a harled flat-roofed addition extending to the outer right. The north elevation is also asymmetrical, with a harled flat-roofed addition obscuring the left bay and containing a boarded timber door flanked by three windows. The right bay features a quadripartite window breaking the eaves, flanked to the left by a lean-to structure with a bipartite window on its right return. The west elevation is blank. The south elevation is near-symmetrical with two bays, an off-centre window to the left, and quadripartite windows breaking the eaves to both outer left and right. Windows are predominantly 15-pane metal frames with 3-pane top hoppers. The roofs are rosemary tiled with paired pyramidal forms, terracotta ridges, and lead-capped pyramidal ventilators in oast house style. A shouldered, coped rough-faced granite wallhead stack rises to the north with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are throughout. The interior was not inspected as of 1998.

The schoolhouse is a two-storey, three-bay structure with similar granite construction. The principal south elevation is near-symmetrical, with a gabled bay advanced to the centre topped by a ball finial, and a tripartite window off-centre to the left of both ground and first floors. Flanking bays to left and right each contain tripartite windows. The east elevation is asymmetrical, with a tripartite window off-centre to the right of the first-floor gablehead. The north elevation is asymmetrical across three bays: the left bay has a tripartite window at ground floor; the centre bay is gabled and advanced with a window off-centre to the left of the ground floor and a tripartite window to the first floor, with a boarded timber door with iron studs to its left return; and the outer right bay is blank and gabled with a gabletted window at the ridge. The west elevation is asymmetrical across two bays: the left bay has a two-light window at ground floor and a piend-roofed dormer to the attic floor; the right gabled bay contains a quadripartite window at ground floor and a tripartite window set in its gablehead. Windows are modern two-pane timber casements. The roof is rosemary tiled with terracotta ridge. Coped granite wallhead stacks with circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the structure. The interior was not inspected as of 1998.

The ancillary structure is a single-storey courtyard block extending to boundary walls north of the schoolhouse, constructed in squared and snecked pink rough-faced granite with finely finished margins. Window and door openings are irregularly placed and boarded timber. The roof is piended rosemary tiled with coped wallhead stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected as of 1998.

The play shed is a single-storey, four-bay structure north of the school. The west elevation features a modern lean-to conservatory at its centre; a boarded timber door flanked by two windows to the left bay; vertically boarded infill surmounted by a row of four-pane windows to the penultimate bay to the right; and an open bay with a column to its outer angle. The south elevation is symmetrical across two bays, with a boundary wall advanced to the centre flanked by two open bays with columns to their outer angles. The east elevation is asymmetrical: two vertically boarded infilled bays at the centre surmounted by a row of four-pane windows; an open bay to the outer left with a column to its outer angle; and an open bay to the outer right with a boarded timber door flanked by small windows. The north elevation was not inspected as of 1998. Windows are predominantly four-pane and two-pane timber. The roof features rosemary tiling with a valley profile, terracotta ridge, and a cast-iron ventilator to the centre of each ridge slope. A coped granite ridge stack with circular cans is present, with cast-iron and PVCu rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected as of 1998.

The boundary walls are constructed in granite rubble and squared and snecked rough-faced granite with rough-faced and pyramidal coping on all sides. Square-plan coped gatepiers with half-spherical caps feature an ironwork pedestrian gate on the south wall. A tooled memorial stone at the southwest angle reads: "...VICTORIA QUEEN AND EMPRESS HAS REIGNED FOR 60 YEARS...1837-1897".