Bonnington Primary School, Bonnington Road, Edinburgh

Bonnington Primary School was built in 1875 by James Simpson, with additions designed by George Craig and signed and dated 1907. It is a large, two-storey, T-shaped school building with Gothic detailing, and includes a detached janitor's house and play shelters. Modern additions have been made to the rear and side.

The building is constructed of cream-coloured sandstone, with squared and snecked rubble and polished dressings. A base course features inset ventilation grilles. Features include chamfered reveals, an eaves cornice, transomed windows, ashlar mullions and transoms, finialled gables with corbelled skewputts, and louvred fleches with arched openings and finialled gables.

The front (northwest) elevation has a five-bay advanced front block with three slender fleches to the ridge. The three centre bays are recessed, with a gable containing a pointed-arch hoodmoulded bipartite window (formerly a door) and a tripartite window above. Flanking bays have altered quadripartite windows on the ground floor and tripartite windows above. The gabled outer bays have arched tripartite windows to the ground and first floors, and arched, trefoiled oculi in the gableheads. A recessed single bay on the left return links to a modern vestibule addition. An advanced gabled end bay has an apex stack and windows: tripartite at ground floor, quadripartite at first floor, and an oculus to the gablehead.

The southwest elevation has three bays with bipartite windows, and a pointed-arched doorway with a bipartite window above, breaking the eaves in a finialled gablehead. A detached, single-storey gabled janitor’s house shares the same detailing.

The rear block has twelve bays, with side elevations and separate doorways inscribed "Girls' Entrance" (northeast) and "Boys' Entrance" (southwest) flanking a narrow linking block. The side elevations have three-bay advanced gabled end blocks with tripartite windows to the centre bay on the first floor, pointed-arched with pierced spandrels. Single windows flank the tripartite, with trefoiled oculi in the gableheads. A carved panel is set into the left spandrel on the northeast elevation, and commemorative panels are in the aprons. A single window is centrally placed in the rear elevation, which has modern rendered additions.

Additional outbuildings include single-storey detached classrooms to the northeast, and open play shelters with cast-iron columns and felted roofs to the southwest and southeast.

Most windows are timber sash and case windows with six panes. The roof is slate, with moulded skews and moulded eaves gutters with ornamental gutterheads.

The interior features a central double stairwell to the front block with open iron stairs.

The site is enclosed by low rubble walls, gatepiers with pyramidal caps, and plain spiky iron railings.