Infant Block, Galston Primary School, Glebe Road, Galston

William Railton, circa 1875. Single storey and attic irregular-plan primary school with Renaissance revival detailing. Principal gabled elevation to Glebe Road; internal 3-sided courtyard. Bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone with polished dressings. Long and short quoins; architraved openings with long and short dressings; eaves cornice.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near symmetrical; 4 windows to recessed central bay; gabled bays to L and R with pair of windows to centre of each, broken segmental pediment above; flagpole rising through apex of gablehead to R; balustraded parapet to wallheads flanking L gable; windows to inside returns.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bay with tall tripartite segmental-arched window flanked by single segmental-arched windows; 3 bays to R, 2 to L with outer gabled bay with tripartite window.

NW ELEVATION: 2 gabled bays with recessed courtyard bay between with regular fenestration; gable to L with tripartite and blocked oculus above; R gable with 2 architraved windows and keyblocked oculus above; further 3 bays to outer R.

SW ELEVATION: advanced asymmetrical bay with pedimented entrance to L, central single window with slit above; 2 bays recessed to R. Advanced gabled bay to outer R; bipartite within segmental-arched hoodmould; 3 windows and gabled bay with segmental-arched door to inside return.

Timber sash and case windows (small-pane upper, 2-pane lower

sashes). Grey-green slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles; fish-scale slates to gables at SE. Coped stone skews with tall blocked skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods with large top hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen (2003).

GATES, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: square-plan ashlar gatepiers with corniced necks and spherical caps; low snecked rubble wall with copes and railings over enclosing playground to street. Coped rubble wall enclosing playground to side and rear. Wrought-iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau/Arts and Crafts manner with fluid foliate elements and square panels pierced with small squares and hearts (see Notes).