Gourock Primary School, 8-14 Binnie Street, Gourock

Gourock Primary School, designed by Alexander Cullen and completed in 1908, is a large three-storey school featuring Glasgow Art Nouveau details. The building consists of two rectangular blocks connected at the northern corner, along with a small janitor's house to the northwest. It is constructed from pink sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble, and polished ashlar bands and dressings. The façade includes stylised pilaster strips and geometric Art Nouveau details in red sandstone.

The southwest (front) elevation has ten bays, with the six central bays featuring a recessed second floor behind a parapet. It has a catslide roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafters, regular fenestration, and two wallhead stacks. The advanced penultimate bays on either side form bowed stair towers topped with tall parapets and half-conical roofs, with squared doorways labelled 'BOYS' and 'GIRLS'. Above these doorways are three tall vertical strip windows separated by pilasters. The gabled outer bays have windows on their inner faces, framed by pilaster strips with geometric details at the gablehead.

The southeast elevation has nine bays, with a three-bay gable on the outer right and geometric detail at the gablehead. The northwest elevation mirrors this, featuring a gabled rear wing that projects to the outer left, along with modern additions and a secondary external stair. The northeast (rear) elevation also has nine bays with regular fenestration and a gabled projection on the outer right.

The janitor's house is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a gabled roof. It features a central doorway with a semicircular pediment above, showcasing geometric detail that rises from corbels and breaks the eaves. The outer bays have bipartite windows.

The school has timber sash and case windows, primarily with three-pane upper sashes and six-pane lower sashes. The roof is slate with lead flashings, and there are two wallhead stacks on the southwest elevation and one on the rear. The eaves feature squared gutters with dated gutterheads.

Boundary walls consist of a low rubble wall at the front, with square-plan gatepiers topped with flat domed coping, accompanied by plain iron railings and gates.