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. Community centre.
Schoolhouse, Female Industrial School, Station Road, Errol
- WRENN ID
- hollow-porch-indigo
- 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
- Community centre
- OS grid reference
- NO 253 229
- Coordinates
- 56.39279, -3.21128
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a former schoolhouse, known as the Female Industrial School, located on Station Road in Errol. It was designed by J, J M and W H Hay of Liverpool and constructed in 1855. This single-storey, six-bay structure is laid out in an L-plan and is built of snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. It features base and eaves courses, a pointed-arch door, and windows that are trefoil-headed and basket-arched, with stone mullions and chamfered arrises.
On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay to the right, which has a raised centre 4-light window and a relieving arch. To the left, there is a boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges set in a recessed bay, and a two-stage stack that pierces the eaves at the outer left angle.
The south (north back dykes) elevation has six regularly spaced square-headed windows that are basket-arched and ogee-moulded. An adjoining schoolhouse is located to the outer right.
On the north elevation, there is a gabled bay to the right featuring a trefoil-headed tripartite window and a stack at the outer right angle. The recessed bays to the left are obscured by a modern flat-roofed extension, and a wallhead stack to the left has been replaced with brick. The adjoining schoolhouse is at the outer left.
The north elevation includes diamond-pattern leaded glazing, while the west elevation retains latticed trefoils over 4- and 5-pane glazing patterns. The south elevation has timber sash and case windows with a horizontal 10-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are a coped ashlar stack with a polygonal can, as well as a coped shouldered brick stack with a can. The skews are stepped and ashlar-coped, featuring moulded skewputts.
Inside, the schoolhouse has a boarded dado and a hammerbeam roof supported on stone corbels.
The boundary walls consist of a low brick wall with semicircular stone coping, which formerly had inset railings. The flat-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers are accompanied by ironwork gates.
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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