Abbotshall School Off-Campus Unit, Ramsay Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. School, office.
Abbotshall School Off-Campus Unit, Ramsay Road, Kirkcaldy
- WRENN ID
- narrow-stair-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- School, office
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-storey, irregular T-plan school building, dating from 1890 and designed by Robert Little. It has been converted into offices. The building is constructed from rock-faced squared and snecked rubble stone with sandstone ashlar detailing, including ashlar long and short quoins. A deep sandstone base course and eaves course run around the building. Architectural features include shouldered, pointed-arch and trefoil openings, buttresses, hoodmoulds with label-stops, relieving arches, stone transoms and mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.
The east elevation is symmetrical, with five bays. The central bay is slightly advanced, featuring a gable with three transomed, bipartite windows and a common stepped hoodmould. A taller centre bipartite window has flanking two-stage buttresses. A small, hoodmoulded pointed-arch window is in the gablehead, with a further window to each return. Bays to either side of the centre have a small, finialled gablet with a raised centre transomed, tripartite window breaking the eaves, and flanking bipartite windows. Advanced outer gables have two transomed windows flanking a taller two-stage buttress, all under a relieving arch; a trefoil opening is in the gablehead.
The south elevation features an advanced gable to the left of centre, containing two windows flanking a full-height chimney breast, with a window to the return on the right. A modern doorway (the main entrance) occupies the re-entrant angle to the left. A finialled gablet with a raised centre transomed, tripartite window breaking the eaves is positioned beyond the chimney breast, with a three-stage chimney breast and flanking return gable windows to the outer left. Five bays to the right have a window gablet mirroring the central design, breaking the eaves.
The north elevation displays a symmetrical fenestration pattern, including a central gablet. A modern extension projects from a link to the right of centre.
The west wing projects from the centre rear of the principal block, and the west elevation of the rectangular-plan block terminating the west wing features a small, finialled gablet with a window gablet over the centre bay. Three windows are positioned in each of the flanking bays. Finialled, gabled bays are present on the returns, mirroring the outer bays of the east elevation. A drinking fountain is located to the outer right. The south elevation of this wing has a finialled, gabled bay with a two-leaf boarded timber door in a hoodmoulded, pointed-arch opening, with 'INFANTS' carved at the doorhead. A bipartite window with a relieving arch is to the right, and a blocked, small, pointed-arch opening is in the gablehead. The north elevation mirrors the fenestration pattern and window gablet from the other elevations.
Small-pane glazing patterns are found in the top-opening timber windows, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. The building has coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped stepped skews with moulded skewputts. Decorative cast-iron finials adorn the roofline.
Inside, the building exhibits segmental-headed openings, plain cornicing, and boarded dados. Open beam ceilings supported by corbelled brackets are also present.
The site is enclosed by semicircular-coped and saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls with railings. A decorative cast-iron drinking fountain is also present.
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