Our Lady's Roman Catholic High School, Dowanfield Road, Cumbernauld

Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, 1962-4; including extension by same, 1970. 4-storey rectangular-plan school building on falling ground, with square roof block; slightly projecting 3rd floor. Metal frame; marked concrete; metal cladding (metal-coated bitumen). Concrete walkway to 1st floor entrance, set at angle to building, oversailing ground on pilotis Horizontally-orientated fenestration.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber door with glazed panels, to right of centre at 1st floor; irregular openings to remainder, including 3 glazed concrete panels (see Notes), double glazing band, with regular astragal pattern to upper band, spanning ground and 1st floors,

lean-to conservatory addition to right at ground; continuous double glazing band with regularly-spaced astragals to upper band at 2nd floor; continuous glazing band with irregularly-placed astragals to 3rd floor. Metal facing between glazing bands.

INTERIOR: gymnasium on lower ground; assembly hall, dining room, classrooms and offices to ground floor; classrooms and stores to 1st floor; specialised classrooms to 2nd floor.

Steel inset, timber-framed, vertical pivoting windows. Flat, timber-joisted, boarded roof, with bitumenous felt roofing.

JANITORS HOUSES: used as nursery (2000), designed en suite, 1962. Built to aback rising ground and accessed on 2 levels. 2-storey, rectangular-plan block, flat-roofed, running N-S by W gate to NE of site. Doors and recessed openings

alternating with window on ground floor to W; continuous band of windows at 1st floor.

E elevation accessible on higher ground by wider doorways with flanking bands of windows.

TECHNICAL BLOCK: en-suite, 1962, 3-storey and part basement on falling ground, technical block, shallow U-plan with bowed projection. Sited to W of main school, courtyard opening to E. 2nd floor jettied and metal-clad. Banded windows to each floor (continuous). Bowed end (metalwork classroom) to S. Central link serving as circulation hall at ground, with woodwork classroom, boys and staff lavatories and stores.