Primary School, Thornhill

Charles Howitt of Drumlanrig estate, architect. Built 1864-5.

Single storey T-plan school with lower east wing, built on

slope with basement at west. Tudor. Channelled, bull-faced

pink ashlar with polished dressings, hood-moulds and raised

quoins. Tudor-arched bipartites to 4-bay long south wall and

to west gable, latter flanking projecting chimney breast and

set above depressed-arched basement openings: gabled north

and south facing porches on smaller gabled east wing (door of

former blocked), tripartite in gable of north wing, modern

addition in re-entrant angle. Splayed base course;

saw-toothed skews with gableted skew-putts; off-set corniced

stacks; slate roofs with cast-iron cresting.