Cockpen Nursery School, Sherwood Crescent, Bonnyrigg

1835, with later additions and alterations. 2-storey (grouped 3-1), 4-bay asymmetrical school and school house with single storey wing to outer right and square-plan porch to rear, (W) elevation. Stugged ashlar sandstone with polished and droved ashlar dressings. Gables to 1st floor dormer windows. Stepped block to gable skews. Base course to E (principal) and N elevations. Chamfered reveals to windows.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay, triple dormer group to left: raised architraved doorpiece with gothick ancones supporting a cornice above; single window at 1st floor above. Window to each floor of bays to left and right. Single gabled bay to right: full-height bay slightly advanced; tripartite, pointed-arched window with segmental arch set in to centre; diamond-framed vent above; advanced, bracketed die to apex of gable.

N (PLAYGROUND) ELEVATION: single storey, 4-bay (grouped 2-2) with advanced 2-bay projection to right. Single window in each bay to left of centre; single window in each bay of advanced, gabled group to right of centre; diamond-framed vent above; gablehead stack; modern part- glazed door with narrow window to right in left return.

W ELEVATION: single storey, 2-bay. Full-height gable wall to right with tall tripartite window to centre; diamond-framed vent above. Single window in bay to left; square-plan porch to outer right of gable; panelled door with multi-pane geometric fanlight above.

Variety of window types; 24-pane timber sash and case, (some PVCu) tripartite timber mullioned with Y-tracery, 12-pane sash and case, 24-pane fixed, 16-pane fixed, 6-pane with top-hopper; grey slate roof; ridged ashlar coped skews with prominent skewputts to dormers; wallhead coped ashlar stacks to N and S elevations; coped ashlar stack to centre of roof.

BOUNDARY WALL: sandstone rubble with shaped rubble cope.

OUTBUILDING: single storey symmetrical garage. Ashlar sandstone with polished ashlar quoins. Opening to centre with piended grey slate roof; symmetrical square-plan wings to outer left and right; ashlar coped flat roof to wing to left; raised brick section (later) to wing to right with monopitch corrugated iron roof; painted wooden tie beam and braces.