Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. School, schoolhouse.

Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit

WRENN ID
crumbling-jamb-magpie
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
School, schoolhouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Probably Alexander Ross, later 19th century. Long S facing

single storey school range flanked either end by single storey

and attic, 3-bay schoolhouses. Red sneck coursed rubble with

contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and long and short

detailing.

9-bay centre school block, with slightly advanced gabled

outer and centre bays, and with 2 entrances in projecting

porches abutting outer gables. Paired long pointed-headed

windows in outer gables; similar triple windows in centre.

All small windows have pointed heads. Schoolhouses each with

centre door under bargeboarded slated canopy with flanking pointed-headed windows similar to those in school. Segmental

headed windows break wallheads in outer bays, rising into

gablets. 4-pane glazing, multi-pane glazing in long windows.

Blind trefoil vents in gables; coped ridge and end stacks;

slate roofs with projecting eaves.

School fronted by cast-iron spearhead railings with matching

gates and slender octagonal cast-iron gate piers. Coped

rubble garden walls enclose schoolhouses, with paired gates

and similar gate piers as school.

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