Clyne Parish School, Clyneish Road, Brora

The Clyne Parish School, likely designed by William Fowler in 1863, is a two-storey, L-plan school building with a late 19th century wing added to the southwest, creating an overall U-plan layout. The construction utilizes coursed rubble with rugged rubble detailing for quoins, and prominent wall stacks are located on the south side. Dormer windows are punctuated throughout the roof, featuring timber boarding in their apexes.

The east elevation showcases a central gable-ended porch with a two-leaf timber door. A bipartite window sits in the left return, with a plain wall to the left and a bipartite dormer window centered above. The gable to the right features a tripartite window and a bipartite window in the gable at the second floor, with the gable eaves lowering to the right.

The south elevation, in a U-plan arrangement, features an advanced east wing with a plain gable wall. Disturbed stonework on the left return suggests a possible blocked door and window, or a former lean-to. The central section of the U-plan exhibits two tripartite windows and two dormer bipartite windows, with advanced chimney breasts to the right of each window; the far-right stack has unevenly sloping shoulders. The advanced west wing, dating from the late 19th century, includes a bipartite window on the ground floor left. A central door is flanked by windows to the right return, with a bipartite window to the right overall, and two bipartite dormer windows above these ground floor openings.

The west elevation displays the late 19th century section on the right, with two windows to the left and a door at the center, marking the site of a former porch. Three cast-iron rooflights are present, along with two dormer windows on the later addition.

The north elevation features a door to the left and a large tripartite window to the right of the door (obscured by vegetation in 2003). A door is located to the right of the tripartite window. Three dormer windows are positioned above. An outshot with a catslide roof extends to the right, incorporating a door in its left return. A gabled elevation to the far right has a door with a window to the left flank, and a first-floor window to the left.

The main entrance doors within the east porch are timber-panelled, while other doors are timber-boarded. The building predominantly features eight-pane timber sash and case windows. All dormer windows are entirely situated within the roof space, with pitched dormers displaying timber boarding in the apexes, plain timber bargeboards with exposed rafters, and tile ridge cresting. Coped ashlar skews incorporate block skewputts. The roofs are pitched and slate covered. A gable apex stack is located on the southeast gable, a tall and wide gable apex stack on the southwest gable, a tall and wide ridge stack on the west wing (possibly a former gable apex stack of an earlier building), and two wall stacks on the south. All stacks are coped, and some circular clay cans remain.

The interior is plain (partially viewed in 2003), featuring timber staircases located to the east, west, and center north, complete with turned wooden balusters. Timber wainscot is present in the classrooms, and fireplaces have been removed.

Rubble boundary walls, running along the south and east sides (damaged to the north), are topped with curved stone coping.