Hyndland Primary School, 34 Fortrose Street, Partick, Glasgow

Hyndland Primary School, 34 Fortrose Street, Partick, Glasgow

This is a three-storey board school with basement, designed by William Landless of Landless & Clifford and built between 1885 and 1887. It is a rectangular-plan building with a piend roof, nine bays wide, constructed in sandstone ashlar with stugged ashlar and squared and snecked rubble, and polished stone dressings. The building incorporates a janitor's house on the ground floor and sits on ground that falls away to the west. The base course is deeply rock-faced, with ashlar band courses, a second-floor cill cornice and eaves course. Doorways feature segmental heads with two-stage pilastered and pedimented surrounds. Windows to the first floor have segmental heads, while anthemion-capitalled dividing pilasters separate the first-floor bays. Stone details include keystones and voussoirs, with stone mullions throughout.

The principal (west) elevation has a raised basement with regular fenestration. The ground floor centre bay approaches via steps with low flanking walls leading to a roll- and concave-moulded doorpiece flanked by banded pilasters, with a carved keystone, carved spandrels and pedimented cornice. The first floor above features further pilastered and consoled work with a corniced blocking course set over a frieze inscribed "HAMILTON CRESCENT PUBLIC SCHOOL". The ground-floor centrepiece comprises a deep-set two-leaf boarded timber door with decorative segmental timber pediment and a bipartite window above. To the left of this are three windows, set below a frieze inscribed "GOVAN PARISH"; to the right are four windows below a frieze reading "SCHOOL BOARD". The first floor has eight windows flanking the centre, and the second floor has nine smaller windows. Windows in bays 2, 5 and 8 have pilastered surrounds with segmental top-lights that break through the eaves into keystoned and pedimented dormerheads.

The south elevation is seven bays wide with a raised basement to the left. Steps from the west lead to two advanced bays to the right of centre, which feature paired segmental-headed, roll-moulded openings at ground level. The left opening has a two-leaf panelled timber door inscribed "BOYS" below a three-part segmental fanlight; the right opening has two small windows below a similar fanlight. Two windows occur on each floor above, with regular fenestration to the recessed bays.

The north elevation has principal openings that mirror the south elevation but with the doorhead inscribed "GIRLS".

The east elevation is symmetrical and eleven bays wide, with seven advanced bays to the centre.

Throughout the building, windows are mainly two-pane vertically-astragalled lower sashes below plate glass upper sashes, set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered in grey slates with terracotta ridge tiles. Cast-iron downpipes, some with decorative fixings, drain the building.

The interior features a top-lit centre stairwell with a dentilled cornice and balustrade. The complex staircase has decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrails. Some decorative plasterwork is present, along with boarded timber dadoes and round-headed openings.

An ancillary gymnasium hall, eight bays long and rectangular in plan, adjoins the main building. It is constructed in red brick with slated roof, and has ashlar cill and eaves lintel courses. Vertically-astragalled lunettes light the east and west elevations below shaped gableheads. Small square-headed windows are positioned high up on the north and south faces, with a full-width top-light. The interior has cast-iron trusses and "Dux boards" transferred from Hamilton Crescent Secondary School.

The boundary comprises low semicircular-coped ashlar walls with inset decorative cast-iron railings. Square-section ashlar gatepiers, each with deep plinth, carved (eroded) pier, fielded frieze and corniced coping, frame the entrance. The pier adjacent to the "Boys" entrance retains the base of a gas lamp. Decorative cast-iron railings and gates complete the boundary treatment. A red brick terrace wall to the north features a segmental arch with inset railings.