Wrought Iron Railings And Gates, Caledonian Road Primary School Including Advanced Department Building, Caledonian Road

Andrew Heiton Jnr, dated 1892. 3-storey, rectangular plan, free Jacobean style school with symmetrical, 3-bay elevations, situated on prominent corner site. Squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar margins. Base course, cill course, band course, cornice. Dutch gables; bipartite windows with stone mullions and transoms, some round headed.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: W (principal) elevation: 3-bay advanced dutch gabled section to centre; swan-necked with niched, segmental-arched gablehead. Central entrance portico to ground with finely carved pediment on applied Tuscan columns. Flanking 3-bay recessed areas with central Dutch style wallhead gables. Later, steel escape stair added to left recessed area.

N and S elevations: 4-bay recessed section to centre with central wallhead dutch gable; flanking advanced 2-bay dutch gables.

Predominately timber windows, fixed lights with top hoppers. Grey Cumberland slates. Tall ashlar sandstone stacks to central ridge. Timber panelled doors, some part-glazed with decorative brasswork.

INTERIOR: centrally planned, large double-height atrium with hammerbeam roof trusses supported by hemi-spherical arches, housing interlocking but separate stairs for girls and boys. Oval light wells to 1st floor landings. N & S sides of ground and 1st floor plans occupied by classrooms and cloakrooms. Retractable timber and glass partitions to classrooms. Mezzanine 2nd floor with classrooms to four corners and long, multi-use spaces to the N and S, characterised by exposed, cast-iron, arched roof beams. Wrought iron decorative balusters, carved timber handrails, double tongue and groove timber boarding and classically detailed timberwork throughout.

ADVANCED DEPARTMENT BUILDING: to NE. Dated 1900. 2-storey and attic 5-bay annex with advanced end bays. Red sandstone with smooth margins. Key-stoned, segmental-arched openings to ground. Street elevation to N with Ionic pilasters detail to 1st storey.

Interior: halls to upper level, one with timber boarding. Part-glazed entrance door with multi-pane, semi-circular fanlight above and side lights.

WROUGHT IRON RAILINGS AND GATES: original railings survive to W and SE site boundaries. Rounded stone base; wrought iron, stylised floreate piers; stanchions with alternating voluted and spiked finials.