Boundary Wall, Old Primary School, The Cross And Lochwinnoch Road is a Grade C listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 2004.

Boundary Wall, Old Primary School, The Cross And Lochwinnoch Road

WRENN ID
narrow-rubblework-tarn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 December 2004
OS grid reference
NS 357 698
Coordinates
55.89386, -4.62744
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Primary School, located at The Cross and Lochwinnoch Road, was built in 1873 with some later additions. It is a single-storey, roughly cruciform-plan gabled former board school featuring a tripartite window and a stone bird-cage bell-cote on the north gable. There is a gabled porch situated in the northeast re-entrant angle. The building is constructed from whinstone and sandstone random rubble, with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a discontinuous base course, an eaves cornice, long and short quoins with raised quoin strips, and raised chamfered window margins. The south wing has paired windows with raised long and short margins. The porch has a stop-chamfered, shoulder-arched opening and a bipartite window to the left. An ashlar tablet on the east gable is inscribed "KILMACOLM SCHOOL BOARD," and there is a corniced wallhead stack above.

There is a later entrance in the southeast re-entrant angle, featuring a roll-moulded, depressed-arch architrave and a later timber porch with a slate roof. The north gable has a stone-mullioned tripartite window with a small vent above the central light, a hoodmould, and a circular vent at the gable apex, topped by a corniced bell-cote with shouldered openings. The smaller west wing has a shouldered door architrave and a window.

The windows and doors are boarded up, and the windows were likely originally timber sash and case. The building has ashlar-coped skews with plain skewputts and a decorative octagonal chimney can, all covered with graded grey slate.

Access to the interior was not possible in 2004. The boundary wall surrounding the property is made of coped random rubble, with ashlar gatepiers and the base of a Sun Foundry gas lamp on one of the gatepiers.

Local climate

Boundary Wall, Old Primary School, The Cross And Lochwinnoch Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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