Milesmark Primary School, Rumblingwell, Dunfermline

Andrew Scobie, 1874-76 with earlier and later 20th century additions. Single storey; I-plan; Gothic Revival school with ball-finialled gabled bays and prominent 6-light mullioned and transomed windows with pointed relieving arches. Coursed stugged snecked sandstone with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; coped gables. Chamfered openings; all Caernarvon-headed apart from those to rear (N) elevation and pointed central light of 6-light mullioned and transomed windows.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical arrangement. 3 bays set back to centre; central one wider and gabled with flanking stacks to gable and central 6-light mullioned and transomed window; 2-light mullioned window to each of flanking bays. 3-bay sections with low outer flanking buttresses project forward to either side; each with gabled entrance bay to inner return; inner entrance to each side (one for girls, one for boys); that to left has original timber door with diagonally boarded panels; both have rectangular fanlights and 2-light mullioned window to outer side; circular label-moulded vent to each gable. Gabled central bay to front of each projecting section; each with central 6-light mullioned and transomed window and trefoiled vent at apex; narrow flanking windows set back slightly.

E ELEVATION: gabled central bay with 6-light mullioned and transomed window. 2 windows formerly to either side; outer one and additional narrow window to left now largely obscured by later 20th century rendered flat-roofed extension. Slightly projecting gabled outer bays; each with 6-light mullioned and transomed window.

W ELEVATION: gabled flanking outer bays; each with 6-light mullioned and transomed window and trefoiled vent at apex. Earlier 20th century rendered flat-roofed porch extension to left in between; entrance to left return.

N ELEVATION: 3 2-light mullioned windows set back to centre. Gabled sections (without finials/coping) project to either side; each with central 4-light mullioned and transomed window with narrow flanking windows, circular vent at apex of gable and low buttress to outer edge; 3 windows and rendered lean-to to inner return of left projecting section; narrow window and 2-light mullioned window to inner return of right one.

Mainly 4 and 8-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Pair of coped wallhead stacks flanking gable to S; one slightly shouldered and rebuilt in red brick to inner return of NW projecting section; cans largely missing.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1999).

BOUNDARY WALL: extends along Rumblingwell and Parneuk Road to enclose triangular site. Coursed stugged snecked sandstone with chamfered droved ashlar coping and cast-iron railings (punctuated by piers) to Rumblingwell; square-plan gatepiers with elaborately moulded coping centred on school. Coursed sandstone rubble walling with rounded coping to Parneuk Road.