Dunend Primary School, School Lane, Cardenden, Auchterderran

Dunend Primary School, located on School Lane in Cardenden, Auchterderran, was likely designed by William Williamson in 1910, with later additions to the south. This single-storey, gabled school features painted harl and contrasting red pantiles, with keystoned, round-headed openings.

The east elevation is symmetrical with six bays arranged around a central axis. Bays one, three, four, and six have tall, dormer-headed windows that break the eaves, with catslide roofs over bays one and six and piended roofs over bays three and four. Bays two and five are gabled, each featuring a round-headed window at the center, flanked by smaller windows and coped buttresses. A carved thistle is located in the gablehead, and there is a prominent ball-and-spike finialled, lead-roofed pagoda air-vent on the roof ridge. To the outer right, there is a lower recessed bay with a window, door, and a tall stack.

The west elevation mirrors the east but has a recessed bay to the outer left, which contains two windows and steps leading up to a small window that has been converted from a door, along with steps leading to the boiler house in the basement.

The south (entrance) elevation features three gables, with a keystoned Diocletian window in the center gablehead, flanked by small, horizontal tripartite windows in the larger gableheads, which have ball-finialled outer skewputts. The lower detail is obscured by an almost full-width flat-roofed extension.

The windows are small-pane glazing in top-opening sash and case look-alike timber frames. The roof has red pantiles, with a grey catslide dormer to the outer right. Other details include a coped and harled stack, terracotta coped skews, ball-finialled skewputts, and decorative cast-iron finials.

Inside, there is a central hall with rooflights and open-beaming, with six classrooms on each side. Although the ceilings have been lowered, the dado panelling has been retained.