Primary School, School Wynd, East Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. School. 7 related planning applications.
Primary School, School Wynd, East Wemyss
- WRENN ID
- sharp-pewter-indigo
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
G C Campbell, 1906-8. Tall 2-storey and part raised basement, rectangular-plan, school on ground falling to SE. Harled with contrasting sandstone margins. Segmental-headed openings; stone transoms and mullions.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced gabled centre bay with broad piended porch on 4 cast-iron columns with decorative cast-iron spandrels, segmental-headed doorway with 2-leaf part-glazed timber door and multi-pane fanlight and flanking bipartite windows; tall 4-light transomed window to centre at 1st floor with smaller flanking bipartite windows and glazed oculus in finialled gablehead. Piend-roofed flanking bays, that to right with small 3-light segmentally-headed window close to ground at left, window to centre and small window over door (converted from window) to right; tall segmentally-headed 4-light transomed window at 1st floor with further windows to centre and right. Bay to left of centre mirrors the above but retains window to outer left at ground.
SW ELEVATION: largely symmetrical elevation with projecting piended outer bays, that to left with widely spaced tripartite window to ground and raised centre tripartite breaking eaves into dormer gablet with arrowslit at 1st floor, that to right with 2 windows in raised basement, and windows to left at 1st and 2nd floor. Slightly recessed centre bay with tripartite window to ground flanked by door to left and window to right, raised centre tripartite (as above) at 1st floor flanked by further windows.
SE ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation with large tripartite windows to each bay at each floor (including basement) and raised centre tripartite (as above) at 1st floor.
Small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts.
INTERIOR: galleried, top-lit centre hall with Queenpost-trussed roof and classrooms off. Dog-leg staircase with tiled dado and cast-iron balusters with timber handrails.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: saddleback-coped harled boundary walls with inset railings, and coped rubble boundary walls. Square-section, coped and harled gatepiers.
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