Primary School Including Boundary Walls And Railings, Clydesdale Street, New Stevenston

The building is a primary school, constructed in 1895 and extended in the early 20th century with later additions. It is a large, symmetrical, two-storey building with eight bays, featuring crowstepped gables to its prominent outer bays and a square tower with decorative cast-iron brattishing at the left re-entrant angle. The wallhead is crenellated, with tripartite windows featuring scrolled pedimented hoodmoulds and carved fox detail corbel stops to the gable peaks of the first and second floors. Quatrefoils and arched, pedimented finials are also present. The school has a pair of round-arched and shouldered-arched entrance doors, both hoodmoulded, and is built in stugged ashlar with droved margins and quoins. A base course, moulded string courses to the ground floor and first-floor sill level, and an eaves course are visible. Extensions were added in the late 20th century; a small, single-storey flat-roofed extension to the NW and another to the SW links to a hall block at the rear.

The interior features a fine, double-height, Doric stone colonnaded central hall with decorative, high, balconied wrought iron railings. The hall has an open, timber-floored roof with extensive rooflights supported on stone corbel stops with carved timber quatrefoil brackets. Handed stone stairwells are positioned to either side, each with tall railings, timber handrails, and decorative green and white tiles to dado height. Classrooms are arranged around the central hall, with timber panelling to dado height and full-height, multi-pane, timber-glazed sliding screens to cloakrooms. Original fitted timber furniture remains in the janitor’s office, along with three-panel timber doors. The roofs are slate with terracotta ridge tiles. Crenellated gables feature beaked skewputts. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are present.

Attached to the rear is a twelve-bay, single and two-storey hall block which extends to the rear, housing a dining hall and kitchens, with a separate access to a first-floor gym hall. This block is joined to the main building by a later 20th-century flat-roofed toilet block, which is not directly linked.

The boundary walls consist of central, squared ashlar gateposts with domed caps, within a stepped ashlar wall with integral wrought iron railings to the principal northeast elevation. A tall coped wall marks the southeast boundary, while 20th-century railings enclose the northwest playground area.