Temple Primary School And Gates, 6 Spencer Street

Temple Primary School, built in 1899 by Henry Higgins, is a two-storey, gabled, rectangular-plan school located at 6 Spencer Street. It was constructed for the New Kilpatrick School Board using bull-faced cream sandstone with chamfered dressings and stone mullions. The building features tall, narrow windows.

On the southwest elevation facing Fulton Street, there is a four-bay center with paired bays, each containing bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors. A carved frieze reads "TEMPLE - NEW KILPATRICK SCHOOLBOARD - SCHOOL." Atop the building is a large octagonal timber louvred bellcote with arcaded sides and a swept roof, decorated at the eaves with ball finials, a leaded apron, and an elongated finial. The broad, gabled outer bays are slightly advanced and each has a bipartite window flanked by single windows on both floors. A stepped string course divides the floors, and a hoodmould bridges the first-floor windows, shaped like a keystoned pediment at the center, with angled skewputts. Flanking the building are single-storey porches with shaped gables and ball finialled keystones over bipartite windows consisting of small square lights.

The northwest elevation facing Spencer Street is symmetrical with six bays above ground. There is a porch on the right with an advanced outer section (the door is on the northeast return) featuring a shaped gable and a bipartite window facing northwest, along with bipartite windows flanking it. The two center bays have mezzanine windows, and the outer left bays contain two windows. The first floor has bipartite windows in the center bays flanked by single windows.

The southeast elevation is similar to the northwest but has a slapping at the ground level. The northeast elevation mirrors the southwest elevation, although the center bays lack the frieze and have paired bipartite windows under shaped gables that are flush with the outer bays.

The windows are three-pane timber sash and case, with some featuring plate glass. The roof is covered in grey slates with ornamental red ridge tiles and metal ventilators. There are coped stone wallhead stacks and coped eaves with ball finials on the angled skewputts and at each gablehead apex.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996. Decorative railings are present on a sandstone coped dwarf wall, along with two-leaf gates leading to Spencer Street.