Rochsolloch Primary School, 1 Kippen Street, Coatbridge

A school building dating from 1900, designed by James Shaw, constructed on falling ground. It is a two and single-storey, eight-bay, square-plan Jacobethan school. The building is constructed of bull-faced sandstone at ground level, with squared and snecked sandstone to the upper storey. A base course and a dividing band mark the division between these levels. A continuous strapwork hoodmould runs over the upper-storey windows. The windows are predominantly stone mullioned and transomed, with bipartite arrangements and chamfered cills. Grey slates cover the roof, with decorative ridge tiles and lead flashing. The roof features coped ridge stacks, skewputts, and stone thistle finials to the apex of the gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The south elevation, the principal facade, is two storeys with gabled attic windows. Stone steps lead to a central, shuttered, two-leaf timber door, which has a lunette fanlight and shouldered strapwork hoodmould. A bipartite window is above the door, set within a gable that breaks the eaves and is topped with a finial. Bipartite windows are also found in the flanking bays. The advanced, gabled, double outer bays are symmetrical, with a bipartite window flanked by single windows, a small window in the gablehead, and a fenestrated lower storey to the outer right bay.

The north (rear) elevation is two storeys with stone steps leading to a central door above which is a bipartite window. The fenestration is regular across the flanking bays, with bipartites flanked by single windows in the outer gabled bays. A small modern lean-to has been added to the ground floor of the outer left bay.

The east side elevation is single-storey, with three bipartite windows centred between paired single windows; single windows are located at the outer gabled bays. Small gabled roof vents are present.

The west side elevation is two storeys, with regular fenestration in the upper storey. A finialed gable breaks the eaves in the centre, and there is an arcaded section at ground level. Regular single windows are found in the flanking gabled outer bays.

The interior, inspected in 2012, features Tudor detailing, including entrance steps rising to a central hall with a stone colonnade, stone corbels to the timber-boarded roof, and paired curved stairs leading to the headmaster's and teachers’ rooms, which overlook the hall. A large Tudor archway leads off the main hall. Ceramic tiles run to dado height alongside a decorative tile border; timber-panelled doors have etched glass and multi-pane timber pen-lights above.

The boundary wall is composed of bull-faced sandstone courses with saddle-back coping, and features plain cast-iron railings.