Janitor's House, Kelbourne School, 109 Hotspur Street, Glasgow

The Janitor's House is part of Kelbourne School, built in 1912 by Hutton and Taylor. The school is a T-shaped building near symmetrical in design, constructed of red brick with Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne detailing, and incorporates both two-storey and single-storey blocks. Cream ashlar is used for mullions and coping, and a brick base course is visible. The windows are tall and narrow.

The north elevation’s entrance wing projects centrally and features a stepped gable over the three tallest centre bays. A blocked tripartite doorway is set within a semicircular archway, flanked by small-pane windows and a fanlight. Above the archway is a tall, corbelled, canted window with transoms and a leaded piended roof. The return elevations to the north have advanced bays; a brick forestair leads to a porch with a window above, and another bay has windows to each floor and a semicircular gablehead breaking the eaves. Flanking classroom wings on the north side are two-storey, with rows of windows to each floor. A canted brick orielled conservatory (a small, projecting window) is located to the left, and single-storey classroom ranges are alongside, with a generous number of regularly grouped windows.

The south elevation was designed with open, lean-to loggias to ventilate classrooms, supported by broad brick piers; these are now glazed to create additional internal space. A tall, stepped gabled bay at the centre has a large, round-arched tripartite window with a transom, and three openings grouped closely below are linked by a bracketed canopy. Loggia classrooms flank the sides, adjoining two-storey bays and single-storey outer bays, all generously fenestrated.

Classroom windows are small-pane sash and case, with top-hopper panes above; other windows are plate glass sash and case, some with top-hoppers. The doors are two-leaf panelled. The roof is covered with grey-green slates, and brick stacks are present.

The Janitor's House, built in a simple, austere style with Queen Anne details and matching materials, is located to the northwest of the playground. The north elevation has a gabled bay projecting to the left, a block porch to the main door to the right, and two small windows to the left. A round-arched first-floor window is centrally located. An additional door leads to the playground, alongside paired windows and stair windows, the central one breaking the eaves in a gabled dormerhead. Gabled blocks are also present to the south and west. Red brick gate piers with bases and ashlar copes are positioned at intervals along the boundaries, topped with plain wrought-iron railings.