Craigeach is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1994. Former residential school.
Craigeach
- WRENN ID
- quiet-beam-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1994
- Type
- Former residential school
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Craigeach is a former residential school built in 1890. It is a two-storey building with a symmetrical eight-bay principal elevation, featuring squared and snecked whin masonry with red sandstone ashlar dressings. The window margins and doorways on the west elevation have rybated chamfered margins, and the building has bull-faced quoins with margin drafts. The gables are crowstepped.
On the west elevation, the outer bays are gabled and slightly advanced, with a larger gable over the two central bays, both of which are topped with stacks. There are doors located in the third and sixth bays, each with doorcases that include a large blank panel above the lintel and boarded doors. The fenestration is regularly arranged, with bipartite windows in the outer bays at ground level. A moulded panel inscribed "1890" is located in the gablehead above the central bays.
The north elevation has three bays, with the right bay gabled. It features regularly disposed fenestration, including a bipartite window at the center on the ground floor, and a moulded square panel in the gablehead.
The south elevation has a gabled three-bay jamb that extends nearly the full length of the elevation. It includes a tall doorway at the center with a deep six-pane fanlight, regularly disposed fenestration, and a narrow window at ground level on the west return.
The east elevation features a gabled jamb on the outer right, with a small bipartite window on the ground floor to the right and a window at the center on the first floor. There is also a window to the right on the ground floor and one to the left on the first floor on the south return. A single-storey bay with a catslide roof is on the left, containing a door to the right and a window to the left. There is a piended single-storey wing attached to the right of the center, with a door to the right and a window to the left on the north side, a small window on the east side, and four windows on the south side. There are windows on both floors to the left of the center and in the bay flanking to the right. The east elevation also has a gabled jamb on the outer left, with windows on both floors on the north return and in the bay flanking to the right. The building mainly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with some 8-pane fixed glazing. The crowsteps and beak skewputts are made of red sandstone ashlar, and the building has ashlar-dressed corniced and coped stacks, with gableheads on the west elevation and the left jamb on the east elevation, as well as shouldered and wallhead stacks on the right of center on the east elevation. The roof is covered in purple slates, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. A simple iron fence, gate, and gatepiers are located to the north.
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