Toxside School

Toxside School, dated 1847, is a two-storey, two-bay school building designed in an L plan. It is constructed from tooled squared and snecked sandstone with droved dressings, featuring a base course, strip quoins, and crowstepped gables.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, with an advanced gabled bay to the right that has an infilled window at the centre of the ground floor and a window centred on the first floor. Above this window is a tooled panel that reads: "THIS SCHOOL WAS ERECTED AND PARTLY ENDOWED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THIS DISTRICT OF THE PARISH OF TEMPLE BY THE REVEREND JAMES GOLDIE WHO FOR THE LONG PERIOD OF 58 YEARS WAS MINISTER OF THE PARISH A.D. 1847." There is a vertical recess set in the gablehead, topped with a ball finial. An architraved doorway, accessed by stone steps, is located to the left return and features a glazed timber door. To the right of the first floor is a replacement single pane window. The left bay has a window on the ground floor, and a window on the first floor breaks the eaves, adorned with a carved stone thistle finial.

The north elevation is also asymmetrical and consists of three bays. The centre of the ground floor is infilled, while the flanking bays have windows. The first floor has a window in the centre, and the left bay features a gabled window that breaks the eaves, also with a carved stone thistle finial.

The west elevation is asymmetrical with two bays, featuring a slightly advanced bay to the right and a window at the centre of the ground floor. There is an architraved doorway in the centre of the left bay with a timber door, and a window at the centre of the first floor.

The south elevation is blank.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a lead ridge, with crowstepped stone skews and moulded skewputts. The chimney stacks are cement-faced, coped gablehead stacks with circular cans, and there are cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls to the east and south of the school are made of tooled random rubble with semi-circular coping.