Tollcross Primary School, West Tollcross, Edinburgh

John A Carfrae, 1911. Long 2-storey, E-plan Queen Anne school (rear section now community centre) with later alterations and additions to sides and rear. Bull-faced coursed sandstone, squared and snecked at base and sides; cream polished ashlar dressings. Narrow cill course at ground floor level; eaves cornice. Tall banded corniced chimney stalks dividing bay groups.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 8-bay advanced piend-roofed centre section with finialled, scroll-pedimented ventilator/lantern; regularly fenestrated at 1st floor; each pair of windows flanked by tall banded chimney stalks; single storey projecting 8-bay entrance vestibule with splayed corners and large round-arched glazed openings (prominent keystones); glazed timber doors in 3rd bays from right and left; flanked by banded pilaster strips topped by pineapple finials. Outer bays arranged 1.3.3; narrow stone-mullioned 2-light windows to inner bays; penultimate groups of three windows flanked by tall banded chimney stalks with hood-corniced blank tablets at 1st floor level. Eaves cornice arched over broader, banded windows in 2nd and 5th bays from right and left.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: projecting 2-storey gabled bay to left; modern rendered extension to ground, 4-light canted window to 1st floor. 2-storey timber glazed extension to rear elevation of main block. Asymmetrical 3-storey 3-bay projecting block to centre with eaves cornice and blocking; stone-mullioned 2-light windows to ground and 1st floor, 3-light stone-mullioned oriels at 3rd (small leaded panes), in outer bays; broad corniced stacks at corners; entrance in W elevation of this block; timber panelled door in moulded surround with arched moulding over; windows in splayed corner at ground and 2nd, stone-mullioned bipartite and flanking single windows to 3rd floor. 5-bay 2-storey gabled projecting arm adjoins to right; 3 windows to ground and 2nd floors; banded corner pilasters; 2-storey timber glazed extension (1950's) to E elevation of projecting arm, W elevation echoes S elevation of main block (banded chimneys divide 5 bays, eaves cornice raised over 3 centre bays etc). Projecting 2-storey single bay ogee-roofed bay to outer right.

W ELEVATION: gabled end of main block to right; 2-storey timber glazed extensions to centre; 2-storey ogee-roofed 2-storey bay to left (modern windows).

E ELEVATION: gabled end of main block to left; single windows to right at ground and 1st floors; banded chimney at right. E elevation of eastern projecting arm to right; 3 single windows at ground and 1st floors to left, modern window and banded chimney to right.

Predominantly 24-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; stone skews. Tall corniced and banded stone wallhead stacks with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen (1999).

GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: cast-iron railings mounted on low stone coped boundary wall. Ashlar gatepiers with arched panels and dentilled corniced caps. Decorative cast-iron gates.