Wallace Hall Primary School, Thornhill

Wallace Hall Primary School was built in 1909 to a Jacobean style by Edward J W Dakers. It is a single-story building with a roughly rectangular plan and symmetrical design. The school has advanced, shouldered gables to three sides, and stone mullioned windows with multiple lights. There are separate entrances for girls and boys, and the roof is slightly bell-cast.

The building is constructed from squared, snecked bull-faced red sandstone, with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings. Features include a base course to the main elevations, projecting window cills, a moulded eaves course, and stop-chamfered window mullions and margins. The gable apices to the south, east and west have curved tops. Windows in all gables have a central transomed and mullioned bipartite window with tall lower lights and small upper lights, flanked by single tall lights to each side. Round-arched hoodmolds are above all gable windows, except those on the north elevation.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with an advanced gable in the centre and slightly lower piend-roofed sections on each side. The pupils' entrances are in the inner bays of the piend-roofed sections; the girls' entrance is on the left and the boys' on the right, both with chamfered architraves and bracketed pediments. Tripartite windows are in the outer bays. The east and west elevations are almost identical, also with an advanced gable in the centre, a three-window piend-roofed block to the south, and a three-bay section to the north with a central, gable-headed window that breaks the eaves. Three joined, unornamented gables face the north elevation, with curved copes linking each gable. Most windows have four panes, set in timber sash and case frames. A central, cylindrical roof vent has a shallow ogee cap and a cast-iron finial. The roof is covered with greenish slate, with decorative red terracotta ridge tiles. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron, possibly by Walter MacFarlane & Co at Saracen Foundry, and are dated 1909.

The interior contains a central, top-lit hall surrounded by classrooms on each side, with some timber-boarded panelling to the dado height. Interior doors are half-glazed and timber-panelled.

The boundary walls are constructed of snecked, bull-faced sandstone, with cast-iron railings above. Cast-iron gatepiers with scroll-bracketed caps mark the south entrance, while the north entrance has simpler, pyramidal-capped gatepiers.