Kinglassie Primary School, Main Street, Kinglassie

Kinglassie Primary School, built in 1912 by G C Campbell, is a stylised Queen Anne school of single-storey and attic construction, with the west end rebuilt following a fire. The building is arranged in a butterfly plan and is characterised by painted harl walls and red sandstone detailing, including raised ashlar margins and stone cills. Base and eaves courses run along the exterior.

The principal, or south, elevation is symmetrical and features a central sandstone bay with six steps leading to a recessed, two-leaf timber entrance door, above which is a small-pane fanlight and a pedimented window. Flanking this bay are flat-roofed, canted, quadripartite windows. To the right and left of the centre wing are further wings, each with pedimented windows that break the eaves; the outer bays have ball-finialled, flat-coped pediments, while the central bay has a curvilinear pediment, all stepped in design.

The northeast elevation presents three bays, with a splayed red sandstone bay to the right of centre, containing a timber door within a partly blocked doorway, flanked by windows similar to those on the south elevation but of single-storey height and stepped. Pedimented bays, flat to the centre and curvilinear to the left, mirror the detailing of the south elevation. The north elevation’s narrow central bay has a small window below a flat roof and a recessed polygonal hall dome. Flanking this are broad gabled bays, each with a small window and door. The northwest elevation is a mirror image of the northeast, with the addition of four windows and a flat-roofed extension to the right. The east elevation features steps leading to a two-leaf timber entrance door with a fanlight, a bipartite window with flanking smaller windows, and a curvilinear pediment to the right. The rebuilt west elevation is largely blank, with a stepped, curvilinear pediment over a lower, flat-roofed extension.

The windows throughout are timber, with a small-pane glazing pattern and top-opening functionality. The roof is covered in grey slates, with a coped ashlar stack. Other external details include ashlar-coped skewputs, cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior features a polychromatic dado height of ceramic tiles with Art Nouveau inserts in the entrance hall, together with a dentilled cornice. A timber staircase, carved with Art Nouveau detail, leads to a single attic room, while a stone spiral stair provides access to the boiler room, which is top-lit with glass bricks. A part-glazed, two-leaf timber door with a small-pane fanlight leads to a domed polygonal hall, which boasts a timber dado, carved pilasters, dentilled cornice, and ribbed dome. Part-glazed timber doors and dado finishes are found in the corridors and classrooms; a junior secondary classroom to the east has a raked floor. A dado-height glazed ceramic tile finish is present in the west cloakroom.

The boundary is marked by saddleback-coped, harled walls with moulded, domed ashlar gatepiers to the south, southeast, and southwest, along with decorative cast-iron gates and railings.