50 Kirkhill Road, Penicuik

Early 19th century with 1859 additions and alterations by Frederick Thomas Pilkington and later alterations 1880. Single storey, irregular-plan, classically styled former school and schoolhouse building prominently sited to the street corner of a residential area. Predominantly stugged ashlar with smooth and droved dressings. Window openings have stop chamfered arises and the window margins to the principal elevation are raised

Principal (south) elevation with 3-bay schoolhouse to centre, flanked by advanced gabled bays. The gabled bay to the right is the early 19th century principal schoolroom and the gabled bay to the left is a later addition to the schoolhouse. There is a plain apex roundel and stone finial to the principal schoolroom gable. The entrance to left (50 Kirkhill Road) has a consoled bracketed hoodmould. There is a double gabled range extending from the east elevation creating a recessed L-plan to the southeast corner (now rendered). The rear (north) elevation comprises stepped gabled ranges, with the central one dated 1880. The northwest corner is corbelled out. To the west elevation there is a single storey outhouse which is linked to a boundary wall. There is carved stone detailing over the principal windows in the form of round arched and pointed arched capitals.

8 and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Graded slate roof with ridge ventilators. Pointed stone skews with decorative skewputts. Shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior of the former school building was seen in 2015 and has plain timber panelling to dado height within the classroom areas and timber and glazed classroom doors. There are exposed timber roof trusses on shaped stone corbels. The flat press in the principal classroom has a 4-panel door and there is a rear stone stair to the basement area. Evidence of earlier timber sash and case windows remain to corridors now enclosed by later additions.