Youth Hostel, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff

The building is a former school, constructed around 1900, and now serves as a youth hostel. It is a single-storey structure with a T-shaped plan, featuring whin rubble that is squared and snecked on the east elevation, complemented by red sandstone bull-faced dressings. The building has long and short quoins, smooth margin drafts, mullions and transoms, and chamfered cills. It also has overhanging eaves and double-leaf panelled doors with three-pane fanlights.

On the east elevation facing Millcroft Road, there is a gabled jamb at the center, with a tall transomed bipartite window that is made quadripartite below the transom by flanking narrow lights. The south elevation features a south return of the jamb to the right, with a window on the far left and a gabled bay to the left of center that includes a stack. There is a piended bay that is advanced to the left, with a door on the east side. A lower jerkin-headed bay is further attached to the piended bay on the right, which has a bipartite window to the right and a window to the left, along with a small window on the east side. A slightly recessed lean-to is located to the left, featuring a door and a boarded panel.

The north elevation shows a north return of the jamb to the left, with a window on the far right. A piended bay is advanced to the right, with a door on the east side. A lower jerkin-headed bay is further attached to the piended bay on the left, which has a bipartite window to the left and a window to the right, along with a small window on the east side. A slightly recessed lean-to is located to the right, with a central door and flanking windows on the left.

On the west elevation, there are twin gables, each with a tall transomed bipartite window that is made quadripartite below the transom by flanking narrow lights. The rubble wall is joined at the center.

The building features sash and case windows, primarily with 4-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes, and 4-pane glazing for each sash of the transomed bipartite windows. It has corniced red sandstone ashlar stacks, with one gablehead stack on the south and another below the ridge at the center of the west elevation. There is a tall brick stack on the lean-to to the north. The roof is covered with small grey slates and red ridge tiles, and includes several ball finials and ridge ventilators, as well as terracotta cans.

The property is enclosed by a low rubble wall with concrete saddleback coping, red sandstone gatepiers, and hooped railings and gates.