Cove And Kilcreggan Community Centre, School Road, Kilcreggan

Later 19th century, post 1865. Single storey, L-plan, Gothic school building, now community centre; hall with transept and porch and modern addition at N end. Rubble with ashlar margins and dressings; round-headed windows, chamfered reveals. Base course; stugged quoins; eaves cornice on alternating bracketted corbels.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: main body of school with gabled transept at mid-way point, porch in re-entrant angle to left, lower bay to outer right (forming L-plan with transept), modern gabled addition in sympathetic style to outer right. 3-bay body of school to outer left, shouldered wallhead stack slightly advanced at centre with flanking round-headed windows. Gabled porch with round-headed, chamfered door on S face, 2-leaf, hinged and boarded door, plaque in gablehead 'This tablet is placed here by the Free Church congregation of Rosneath in grateful remembrance of the late Mr & Mrs Carne Campbell to whose liberality they are indebted for the erection of this school and adjacent schoolmaster?s house. 2nd June 1850? ; ashlar coping to skews, open cross-finial, round-headed window to right on transept. Large 3-light window on gable of transept. Lower gabled block to right, single window on E elevation, gable end formerly facing N now masked by modern, gabled block with entrance, compatible style, unsympathetic materials, dry-dash with reconstituted stone.

W ELEVATION: 5-bay main body of school; windows, bipartite, single, tripartite arranged 2-1-3-1-2. Louvred, small triangulated lead ventilation dormer, lead ridge ventilator.

S ELEVATION: gable with 3-light window, hoodmould; ashlar, gabled bellcote, sawtooth coping, trefoil finial. Transept recessed to right with gabled porch in re-entrant angle.

N ELEVATION: gable with blocked door at centre.

Leaded windows; plate glass for lower panes of W elevation. Grey slate roof with lead flashings, saw-tooth ashlar coping; shouldered wallhead stack on E elevation, ashlar octagonal can with large octagonal cap; tall yellow brick stack on ashlar pedestal on transept.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rubble wall with harl pointing, boulder coping bounding N side of site; low ashlar plinth wall with simple railings along School Road. Harled drum piers with semicircular caps.