Tayport Primary School, Queen Street, Tayport

John Milne, 1875-6 with large 1938 addition predominantly to E. 2-storey simple Gothic school with octagonal tower with lucarnes on alternate faces (now part-obscured by later addition). Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Continuous hoodmould to ground floor, hoodmoulds to some 1st floor windows, stone mullioned windows.

1938 addition: 2-storey mostly regular long elevation to E. Predominantly squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone to base course, harled above. Cill courses, eaves course, large windows.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to left, advanced single bay gable, to right deeply recessed 2-bay section with entrance door. To far right, single bay gable, to left slightly recessed single bay section with shallow gabled porch with rounded trefoil doorway. To either side of W elevation deeply recessed gables of later addition.

E ELEVATION: 12-bay with single bay gable to left with central dormer breaking eaves.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay section with triple gable dormers breaking eaves, ground floor partly obscured by later addition, to left later addition.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay section with triple gable dormers breaking eaves, to right later addition. 8-pane timber sash and case windows with horns to original building. Predominantly 24-pane metal-framed windows to later addition with pivot openings to top, hoppers to bottom. Graded grey slates with fishscale banding to tower, near-central decorative flêche to W elevation. Iron cresting to tower. Near-central gable stack to W elevation.

INTERIOR: plain but not substantially altered.

RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: to W, low squared and snecked rubble wall with gabled coping surmounted by simple hooped railings interspersed by shallow wide piers stepped to either side forming entrances to N and S, wider entrance to far S plainer. To N, high rubble wall with semicircular rubble coping, near-central opening now blocked. To E, large break in wall to N. To S, predominantly high rubble wall with gabled coping.