Wallacehall Academy And Schoolhouse, Closeburn

Wallacehall Academy and Schoolhouse in Closeburn is a 3-storey, 3-bay schoolhouse built in 1795, featuring an L-plan rear wing. The rear wing includes a school and former schoolhouse constructed between 1724 and 1729 by William Luckup and John Crocket, with alterations made by Walter Newall in 1842, and extensions added around 1777 and 1882.

The 1795 schoolhouse is made of coursed squared rubble with contrasting red ashlar dressings. Its symmetrical west elevation features a central door with an architrave and a half-pilastered doorcase, which has a fluted and inscribed frieze. The building has an eaves course, a cornice, coped end stacks, and a piended slate roof. Inside, there is some decorative cornice plasterwork and an arched recess in the southwest ground floor room with Corinthian pilasters.

The rear wing is built of rubble with red ashlar dressings. It originally served as a 2-storey schoolhouse, featuring mullioned windows with latticed glazing added by Newall. The wing was extended to the west around 1777, and it has an off-centre stair turret on the south wall with a crow-stepped gable that incorporates the original inscription panel, also by Newall. The original schoolroom, located to the east and set at right angles to the house, was extended to the south in 1882 to create a gymnasium. The original interiors have been gutted, and the roofs are slate. The property is partly enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built walls, with corniced circular gatepiers located to the south of the 1795 house.