Dundas Vale School, 38 New City Road, Glasgow

D and J Hamilton, 1837. Classical Renaissance detailed

school. V-plan site; 2-storeys, raised with attic in central

block; 11 x 10 bays, main elevation arranged 3-5-3, returns

2-6-2. Droved ashlar, polished ashlar dressings, rusticated

plinth. Sash and case windows with glazing bars.

ELEVATION TO NEW CITY ROAD: central block; double paired

pilastered and pillared portico (painted) extending in flat

single bays to E and W with mutule cornice and open die

parapet; round-headed, scroll keyblocked entrance, panelled

timber door, fanlight with glazing bars; scroll keyblocked

round-headed windows to both floors, console bracketted

cornice, parapet; piended slate roof with regular

round-headed dormers. Single stage bell-tower with Doric

pilastered aedicule louvres in each direction; clock faces,

urn finial.

WINGS: plain giant pilasters dividing bays; ground floor

windows keyblocked, 1st floor scroll keyblocked; eaves

cornice; parapet; piended roofs.

EAST AND WEST RETURN ELEVATIONS: outer bays set in pilaster

strips with keyblocked arched windows on ground floor, with

aprons console keyblocked in 1st; plain windows in central

bays with aprons at ground floor, corbelled cills at 1st

floor; eaves cornice; parapet.

INTERIOR: coved ceilings on cast-iron columns; coffered

ceilings to ground floor classrooms.

Coped ashlar boundary wall with pedimented entrances in

outer sections; coupled cast-iron pierced piers in centre,

cast-iron railings.