St Andrew's West, Fassifern Road, Fort William

Probably designed by Alexander Ross and dated 1880, this building comprises St Andrew's East, with a former rectory to the east and a former school to the west, each with original entrances. It is a long, north-facing, asymmetrical two-storey building of nine bays. The construction is primarily red bullfaced, sneck-coursed granite rubble with contrasting tooled and polished sandstone dressings. Projecting gabled bays are present in the east and centre, and also at the centre rear.

A bowed porch in the re-entrant angle, belonging to St Andrew's East, rises as a slender, three-storey circular tower with a moulded eaves cornice and a conical slated roof. The porch features a moulded corniced and dated doorpiece with some strapwork decorative detailing. A canted bay window is found on the ground floor of the left gable, topped with a crenellated parapet and pointed-headed bipartites above. Square-headed tripartites are located to the right of the entrance, with a small bowed dormer above. A centre buttress is positioned on the centre gable, which incorporates sympathetic later fenestration and an original centre cusped rose window. The original school has a three-bay arcaded front with pointed-headed arches divided by squat polished ashlar engaged columns with stiff leaf capitals, and bands of carved foliage in low relief decorating the inner faces of the arcades; later 3-light casement windows are also present, along with two later piended dormers above.

The original school entrance, in the extreme western bay (St Andrew's West), has a pointed-headed inscribed architrave flanked by polished granite nook shafts with stiff leaf capitals and a plank door with ornate cast-iron hinges. A single-storey vestibule runs the length of the west gable and is lit by a continuous pointed arcade composed of diminutive columns and capitals, buttressed at each end.

At the rear, there are a pair of original flat-headed windows with geometric tracery, and a cusped rose window in the gable apex, along with various service extensions. Original 2-pane and lattice pane glazing is retained; later 3-pane casements are also present. A carved plaque is high in the east gable, and blocked eaves cornices are visible. Other features include moulded stone ridges, cast-iron apex finials, tall ridge and wallhead coped stacks, and a greenish slate roof.

The school has been converted into a dwelling, but an original chimney piece with an inscribed ashlar hood and late 19th century coloured floor tiles to the school entrance porch remain. Garden walls and gate piers are present; the red bullfaced rubble garden wall, with a contrasting ashlar cope, includes low retaining walls with ornamental cast-iron railings along the north side facing Fassifern Road. A pair of square ashlar gate piers, with shaped caps and dogtooth ornamentation, mark the entrance. Side and rear rubble garden walls have shaped glazed pottery copes.