Prestonfield Primary School, 9 Peffermill Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. School. 5 related planning applications.
Prestonfield Primary School, 9 Peffermill Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- odd-brass-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bernard Widdows, 1929. 1 and 2-storey, courtyard-plan Queen Anne style school. Red brick with artificial stone dressings. Base course; windows in recessed bays with stone cills flanked by giant order pilasters with stone entablatures to principal blocks; stone architraves to doorways; stone string course and coping to single storey, flat-roofed blocks; eaves course and cornice to principal blocks.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced, central hall and 2-storey pavilions with single storey flanking blocks. 5-bay central block with large windows; tripartite windows to both storeys to pavilions; 4-bay single storey blocks with deeply recessed doorways flanking pavilions; single windows to remaining bays.
N, E AND W ELEVATIONS: full-length, recent, lean-to extension to widen classrooms; red and yellow painted pine boarding to walls; glass roof.
COURTYARD: central enclosed courtyard surrounded by glazed corridor to class rooms; box dormers to N, E and W; central paved area with bronze fountain of "Mother and Child" by Thomas Whalen.
Small-paned, timber pivot windows. Red tiled piended roof swept at eaves.
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