Wallace Hall Primary School, Thornhill

Edward J W Dakers, 1909. Single storey, roughly rectangular-plan symmetrical Jacobean-style school with advanced shouldered gables to 3 elevations, stone-mullioned multi-light windows, Girls' and Boys' entrances and slightly bell-cast roof. Squared, snecked bull-faced red sandstone with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course to principal elevations; projecting window cills; moulded eaves course; stop-chamfered window mullions and margins. Raised gable apices to S E and W with curved tops. Windows to all gables have central transomed and mullioned bipartite window with tall lower lights and small upper lights flanked by single tall lights to each side; round-arched hoodmoulds to all gable windows except those to N elevation.

FURTHER DETAILS: symmetrical principal elevation to S with advanced gable to centre and slightly lower piend-roofed blocks to each side; pupils' entrances to inner bays of piend-roofed section (girls to left, boys to right) with chamfered architecraves and bracketed pediments; tripartite windows to outer bays. Almost identical elevations to E and W with advanced gable to centre, 3-window piend-roofed block to S and 3-bay section to N with central bipartite gable-headed window breaking eaves. 3 joined unornamented gables to N elevation with curved copes linking each gable. Predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Central cylindrical louvered roof vent with shallow ogee cap and cast-iron finial. Graded greenish slate roof with decorative red terracotta ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods, possibly by Walter MacFarlane & Co at Saracen Foundry (see Notes) with decorative hoppers dated 1909.

INTERIOR: central top-lit hall surrounded by classrooms on each side. Some timber-boarded panelling to dado. Half-glazed timber-panelled interior doors.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped, snecked, bull-faced sandstone boundary walls with cast-iron railings above; rusticated gatepiers with scroll-bracketed caps to S, plain pyramidal-capped gatepiers to N entrance.