Dirleton Public School, Chapel Hill, Dirleton is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. School. 1 related planning application.

Dirleton Public School, Chapel Hill, Dirleton

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 December 1988
Type
School
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John Alexander Carfrae, 1912. Single storey, U-plan

school with later addition. Squared and snecked

Rattlebag masonry. Dressed and plain ashlar dressings.

N ELEVATION: almost symmetrical. Advanced splayed bay at

centre with coped "colonial" gable absorbing stack to

right. Semi-circular, arched large window at centre with

raised keystone and Gibbsian surround. Single window to

left splay. Doors in re-entrant angles with roll-moulded

architraves, waved at lintels. Recessed end bays with

single window breaking eaves in cartouched "colonial"

gable to right.

Modern flat-roofed infill at rear. Gable later wings. 3 large

windows to right gable with semi-circular panel

above taller centre window billet architrave 2 high

windows to left gable with carved quatrefoil, '1912' panel

in gable head.

E ELEVATION: simply detailed.

W ELEVATION: 3 bays to right with centre window breaking

eaves in cartouched 'colonial' gable. Gabled bays to left

with 2 paired windows and stack to right skew.

Multi-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.

Slated roof. Leaded apron to domed circular bellcote with

fine finial to S of centre ridge.

WALLS AND GATEWAY: rubble boundary wall coped to N

front with quadrant walls, wrought-iron railings. Square

ashlar gate piers with moulded panels to N and moulded

coping. Decorative wrought-iron gates.

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