The Old School, High Street, New Galloway

The Old School, located on High Street in New Galloway, is a former school building from the later 19th century. It is a single-storey structure with a gabled L-plan design, featuring plain gothic window detailing. The building includes a lean-to in the re-entrant angle, a projecting coal store, and a later addition made of corrugated sheet metal at the rear. The exterior is constructed from large blocks of squared and snecked bull-faced granite, with painted stop-chamfered window margins.

On the east elevation, there is a tall gabled hall block running east to west, which has two narrow pointed arch windows and a framed panel displaying a heraldic shield in the gablehead, featuring the motto 'Forward'. The lower block, which runs north to south, has four irregular bays and a catslide roof over the lean-to. This section includes a window and a blocked former door on the return, flanked by a fanlit doorway with a non-traditional door and another window. The broad gable on the outer left has a segmental-arched window with stone Y-tracery.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, though they have been boarded up since 2003. The roof is covered with graded Lancashire slates, with some repairs using Welsh slate. There are zinc and stone flashings, and one metal ridge ventilator remains. The eaves feature carved bargeboarding and exposed rafters.

Inside, the hall to the north connects to a large room to the south via an entrance vestibule, leading to the rear extension. The interior has a high plain dado, and the hall contains two droved stone chimneypieces, with trusses visible in the roof due to a later inserted ceiling. There is an additional stone chimneypiece in the second room, and a pair of large enamel sinks can be found in the corrugated extension.

Surrounding the property are rubble boundary walls topped with flat stone coping, a pair of arch-headed stone gatepiers, and iron railings with gates providing access for both pedestrians and vehicles.