Schoolhouse, Female Industrial School, Station Road, Errol is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Schoolhouse.
Schoolhouse, Female Industrial School, Station Road, Errol
- WRENN ID
- north-alcove-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 253 229
- Coordinates
- 56.39279, -3.21128
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a schoolhouse for the Female Industrial School located on Station Road in Errol, designed by J, JM, and WH Hay of Liverpool in 1855 and reconditioned in 1925. It is a tall single-storey and attic structure with three bays, featuring Gothic architectural elements, a porch, and a corbelled oriel, situated on a site that slopes down to the east. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings, and it has raised base and eaves courses. The entrance includes a pointed-arch doorpiece and trefoil-headed windows with raked cills, complemented by stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
On the east elevation, there is a bay to the left of the center with steps and bootscrapers leading up to a gabled porch that has a boarded timber door, decorative ironwork hinges, and ribbon carving in the gablehead that reads "ALL THY CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD." There are small pointed-arch lights on each return, a bipartite window to the right, and two small bipartites above that break the eaves into dormerheads. The bay to the left of center features a large tripartite window with a relieving arch.
The south elevation presents a tall gabled façade with a small window that has a basket-arched ogee-headed moulding, leading to an incised panel that states, "This Building for a Female Industrial School was erected through the Exertions of the Rev John Caird minister of the Parish of Errol aided by many friends. Opened February A D 1836." Above this is a corbelled, four-light canted oriel.
On the northeast elevation, there is a four-light window at ground level with a bipartite window above it. The west elevation features a tall single-storey former schoolroom that projects at the center, with a full-height shouldered stack made of brick piercing the eaves at the outer right.
The windows mostly have diamond-pattern timber lights, with a four-light window on the north side featuring a four-pane glazing pattern for each light. The opening casements have plate glass, while the timber sash and case window on the south side has a six-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there is a coped rubble and brick stack with cans. The skews are stepped and ashlar-coped, with moulded skewputts.
The property is enclosed by a coped rubble boundary wall.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, Female Industrial School, Station Road, Errol receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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