Dysart Primary School, Normand Road, Dysart

Dysart Primary School was built between 1914 and 1915 by William Williamson, with a later extension. The school is a Queen Anne style building, designed for a site that slopes steeply to the south, and includes a cupola topped with a weathervane. It is constructed of narrow blocks of bull-faced rubble stone with contrasting red sandstone dressings. A deep sandstone base course and eaves course are also present.

The west elevation, facing Normand Road, is symmetrical. Five taller, projecting bays dominate the centre, featuring a round-headed window set above a deep sandstone apron, flanked by windows and pilasters, with a moulded date stone in the gablehead. There are two windows to each side of this central feature. The bays to the right each feature a tripartite window that breaks the eaves into a swept and piended dormerhead, with a blind sandstone apron; the bays to the left mirror this design. A bay to the right has steps leading up to a doorcase marked "BOYS", with a panelled timber door. A similar bay to the left is marked "GIRLS", but without steps. Windows are present in the two outer bays.

The east elevation, at the rear, is largely symmetrical and incorporates service areas and classroom windows above a raised basement, with some dormerheads breaking the eaves.

The south elevation is asymmetrical and includes segmental-headed basement windows and a sympathetic extension added in the 1990s.

The north elevation features a narrow gable at the centre, with windows to both ground and first floors. A raised tripartite window is positioned centrally to the left, with a lower wing to the right containing two bipartite windows and a further window to the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case windows with 9-, 16- and 24-pane glazing patterns; decorative astragals are incorporated into the centre west window. The roof is covered with small grey slates, and the building features coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews.

The interior includes a central corridor with circular rooflights and flanking classrooms, all incorporating dado rails or boarded dadoes. A seven-bay gym hall with a shallow, ribbed barrel roof is also present. A cellar contains round- and segmental-arched openings.

The boundary walls comprise low saddleback-coped ashlar and higher semicircular-coped rubble walls. Square-coped sandstone ashlar gatepiers support decorative ironwork gates and plain railings. A high rubble boundary wall with a segmental arch provides access to Hill Street to the east.