Former Free Church School, Big Kiln Street, Capmpbeltown is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. School. 2 related planning applications.
Former Free Church School, Big Kiln Street, Capmpbeltown
- WRENN ID
- outer-garret-crag
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1845. Single storey, 5-bay symmetrical gothic former school with rhomboidal double-pile plan. Stugged and squared ashlar elevation to street with polished ashlar dressings and details. Random rubble side and rear elevations with droved margins and projecting cills. Base course, cornice at eaves returned at ends, raised margins to pointed-arched windows, sloping cills to street.
N ELEVATION: projecting porch at centre, base course with steps to pointed-arch doorway with moulded reveals, gable to street with stylised bellcote at apex, triangular skew copes with block skewputts, moulded eaves course to sides with round-arched blind lancet in W, new door inserted in E.
E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank double gable ends to M-roof.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical, tall windows with lower half of centre window obscured by brick addition.
Grey slate to porch and M-roof with fish-hook ventilators along ridges. Ashlar single flue stacks, coped and angled to square bases, decorative octagonal cans to all except SE stack. Gablet skew copes to gables with block skewputts.
INTERIOR: altered with modern finishes.
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.