Tayport Primary School, Queen Street, Tayport

Tayport Primary School, built in 1875-6 by John Milne, is a simple Gothic school with a significant extension added in 1938 primarily to the east. The original building is constructed of squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a two-storey design and an octagonal tower with lucarnes on alternate faces, though the tower’s appearance is now partially obscured by the later addition. A continuous hoodmould runs along the ground floor, with further hoodmoulds present on some first-floor windows. Stone mullioned windows are a prominent feature.

The 1938 addition is mainly two storeys and presents a long, regular eastern elevation. Its base course is of squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, while the upper portion is harled, with visible cill and eaves courses and larger windows.

The west-facing principal elevation is characterized by an advanced single bay gable to the left and a deeply recessed two-bay section to the right. A single bay gable sits to the far right, alongside a slightly recessed single bay section containing a shallow gabled porch with a rounded trefoil doorway. Deeply recessed gables of the 1938 addition flank the west elevation on both sides.

The eastern elevation has twelve bays, with a single bay gable to the left and a central dormer projecting above the eaves.

The north and south elevations each have a three-bay section with triple gable dormers breaking the roofline. Parts of the ground floor are obscured by the later addition, particularly on the north side.

The original building incorporates eight-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. The later addition's windows are predominantly of metal, with 24 panes, pivot openings at the top, and hoppers at the bottom. The roof is covered in graded grey slates with fishscale banding on the tower, and a decorative flèche rises centrally from the west elevation. Iron cresting adorns the tower. A near-central gable stack is located on the west elevation.

The interior of the school remains largely plain and unaltered.

The original boundary features low squared and snecked rubble walls with gabled coping, punctuated by simple hooped railings set on stepped piers, creating entrances on the north and south sides, with a wider entrance to the far south. A taller rubble wall with semicircular rubble coping and a now-blocked opening is located to the north. A significant gap in the wall is evident to the east, while the southern boundary is marked by a predominantly high rubble wall with gabled coping.