Old School And Schoolhouse, Balnacra

John Campbell, mason (probably to a design by Alexander Ross - see Notes). 1875. Single-storey and attic, rectangular plan former school and schoolhouse comprising 3-bay schoolhouse with entrance porch and two gabled dormers and 3-bay school room with entrance in lean-to wing adjoining gable. Rubble with tooled long-and-short sandstone ashlar dressings. Deep, bracketed eaves. Pointed-arch doorways. Largely intact schoolroom.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: projecting timber porch supported on stone corbels. 2-leaf timber door with stained glass fanlight above.Louvred roundel above pair of windows to E gable end. Single storey former toilet block outshot to rear centre. Small detached rubble built and slated outbuilding to NE corner of former playground area.

Predominantly four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows with thinly moulded glazing bars to ground floor. Ballachulish slate. Rendered brick ridge and end stacks; ornamental clay cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: schoolroom remains essentially unaltered with ribbed, timber panelled ceiling, timber wall panelling to window height and original timber flooring. Timber surround to kitchen range. Later stair in hall leading to converted attic space with exposed timber beams.

BOUNDARY WALLS: drystone boundary walls extends to rear separating teachers garden from the former playground.