Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, Glasgow

Overnewton School, designed by John Burnet and dated 1876, is a Netherlandish Gothic style building located at 52 Lumsden Street and Overnewton Street in Glasgow. The school is two storeys high and features nine unequal bays. It has a double pile layout with a recessed south gable and an attached tower at the eastern end of the north gable. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble and primarily consists of casement windows with multi-pane glazing, set upon a battered plinth.

The southeast entrance, located at the base of the stair tower, is hoodmoulded and has lettering above that reads "GIRLS". To the east, there are three round-arched windows. The ground floor has a raked string course that steps up over a north-facing bipartite stone-transomed window, with two similar windows above on the southeast and east faces of the tower. The building is topped with an embattled parapet and a steeply-hipped, two-stage pyramidal slate roof featuring a finial and an attached stack.

On the north section, there is a two by eight-bay pile with plain ground floor windows and a raked string course above. The raised lettering "OVERNEWTON PUBLIC SCHOOL" is prominently displayed. There are six central coped full dormers with acroteria, flanked by small single-light windows. The eastern return mirrors the main elevation, featuring a hoodmould round-arched window in the center that frames a sculpted Glasgow coat of arms. The gable is roll-moulded and coped, with a stack and lettering that reads "SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW". The slate roof continues over this section.

The south section replicates the north section's design. The west return has a double gable similar to the main elevation, with a single bay linking section that includes an arched entrance marked "BOYS". In the playground, there are glazed tiled, cast-iron columned, single-storey shelters. Additionally, there is a three by one-bay caretaker's house to the south with half-dormers. A stepped boundary wall to the east is attached to the north section and features an arched entrance marked "GIRLS AND INFANTS".