Gartsherrie Primary School, Gartsherrie Road, Coatbridge

James Davidson, dated 1906. Single-storey, 13-bay (arranged 3-7-3), roughly square plan primary school with Renaissance detailing, on ground sloping to S (principal elevation); mid-20th century flat-roofed lavatory extensions to W (side) and N (rear). Squared and snecked, tooled pink sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Deep, splayed, bull-faced basecourse to S; moulded eaves course. Pedimented gables. Cast-iron fleche railings to S boundary wall; geometric cast-iron balustrading to principal entrances. Many original interior details remaining.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Central, slightly advanced, pedimented bay with flanking carved finials and panelled dies, tripartite window with segmental pediment above with carved date inscribed: ?1906?; flanking single and tripartite windows; entrance doors with bull-faced masonry staircases to penultimate bays; wide pedimented gabled slightly advanced outer bays, scrolled gablet breaking pediments with small keystoned aedicules; flanking finials and panelled dies; central keystoned segmental window and flanking single windows, segmental pediments directly above windows inscribed: 'GARTHSHERRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL'.

E ELEVATION: 7 bays. Single window to far left; bipartite windows to all other bays.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 10 bays with piended pavilion end bays; flat-roofed lavatory extension projecting from re-entrant angle. Low coped masonry wall bisecting elevation on N-S axis.

W ELEVATION: 8 bays, unevenly spaced single and bipartite windows; flat-roofed lavatory extension projecting from central bay.

Predominantly 5-pane metal-framed windows; painted metal fire doors. Pitched and piended roofs; concrete tiles.

INTERIOR: original layout remains generally intact with original glazed and etched classroom dividing walls as well as glazed inner walls of classrooms. Prominent moulded doorways with cornices and segmental pediments; many original panel doors with etched glazed upper panels. Large, central timber pitched-roof assembly hall with rolled steel joist support construction; triple arched gabled ends supported by pilastered piers. Moulded and segmental pedimented chalk boards to each classroom. Pseudo-Art Nouveau chimneypiece to front office.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: stepped, low coped snecked tooled rubble wall to S with original cast-iron fleche railings; 2 pairs of square-plan stop-chamfered gatepiers to S with corniced and finialled caps. High coped rubble walls to E, W and N.