Gartsherrie Primary School, Gartsherrie Road, Coatbridge

James Davidson designed Gartsherrie Primary School in 1906. It is a single-storey building with a roughly square layout, built on a sloping ground, with Renaissance detailing. Later, in the mid-20th century, flat-roofed lavatory extensions were added to the west and north sides. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked, tooled pink sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. A deep, splayed basecourse of bull-faced stone runs along the south elevation, and a moulded eaves course is present. Pedimented gables feature throughout the design, and cast-iron fleche railings define the south boundary wall; geometric cast-iron balustrading adorns the principal entrances.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical, with a central, slightly projecting, pedimented bay. This bay has flanking carved finials and panelled dies, a tripartite window with a segmental pediment, and an inscribed date of 1906. Flanking these are single and tripartite windows, and entrance doors with bull-faced masonry staircases. Wide, pedimented outer bays are also slightly advanced, featuring scrolled gablets breaking the pediments, small keystoned aedicules, flanking finials, and panelled dies. Central keystoned segmental windows are positioned above the windows, with segmental pediments directly above windows inscribed with "GARTHSHERRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL."

The east elevation has seven bays, with a single window to the far left and bipartite windows in the remaining bays. The north (rear) elevation comprises ten bays with piended pavilion end bays, alongside a flat-roofed lavatory extension projecting from the re-entrant angle. A low, coped masonry wall runs bisecting the elevation along the north-south axis. The west elevation has eight bays, unevenly spaced with single and bipartite windows, and a flat-roofed lavatory extension projecting from the central bay.

The building primarily features 5-pane metal-framed windows and painted metal fire doors. Pitched and piended roofs are covered with concrete tiles.

The interior layout largely remains original, with original glazed and etched classroom dividing walls and glazed inner walls to classrooms. Moulded doorways with cornices and segmental pediments, along with original panel doors featuring etched glazed upper panels, are also present. A large, central timber pitched-roof assembly hall is supported by rolled steel joists and has triple arched gabled ends supported by pilastered piers. Each classroom includes moulded and segmental pedimented chalk boards, and the front office features a pseudo-Art Nouveau chimneypiece.

Original cast-iron fleche railings are set within a stepped, low coped snecked tooled rubble boundary wall to the south, and two pairs of square-plan gatepiers with corniced and finialled caps mark the entrance. Higher coped rubble walls enclose the east, west, and north boundaries.