Ninewells School And School House, Mains Street West End, Chirnside

This outbuilding, part of the Ninewells School and School House complex in Chirnside, was designed by Burn and Bryce and built in 1851, with subsequent additions and alterations. It is an asymmetrical, near T-plan, Tudor-detailed building. The main structure consists of a two-storey, rectangular former school house and a single-storey former school room attached to the east. A blocked, gabled porch sits in the re-entrant angle to the north, while a glazed porch is present in the re-entrant angle to the south.

The building is constructed from squared and snecked, tooled cream sandstone, with some tooled rubble sections, and sandstone ashlar dressings. Features include a raised base course, a moulded eaves course, and a coped parapet on the south side. Architectural details include lightly stugged, raised quoins, long and short surrounds to chamfered openings, sandstone mullions, and chamfered cills. A single-storey, rectangular ancillary structure extends to the east.

The south elevation presents a gabled wing with a tripartite window at the centre of the ground floor, and a bipartite window above. A recessed range to the right features a large, slightly projecting tripartite window at ground level, with an architraved panel above and a blind, round-arched arrowslit in the gablehead. A glazed porch is set at the re-entrant angle to the left, with carved sandstone brackets supporting a sandstone gablehead.

The west elevation displays a two-bay block with a single window at ground level to the right, and a gabled window breaking the eaves above. A slightly advanced, gabled bay to the left has a tripartite window at ground level, while a corbelled tripartite window projects at the first floor.

The north elevation has a gabled bay to the right with bipartite windows on both floors. A single-storey porch is adjoined to the left, featuring a blocked, basket-arched opening at ground level, and a rectangular panel dated '1851' centred in the gablehead.

The east elevation features a gabled wing with a full-height projecting stack breaking the gablehead. A modern window is visible in a blocked, basket-arched porch opening recessed to the outer right, with a glazed porch set at an angle recessed to the outer left.

The building predominantly has modern glazing, although some original four-pane timber sash and case windows remain on the west side. The roof is grey slate, with red tile ridging. Other features include gablet-coped skews, bracketed skewputts (some with tapering sandstone finials), coped sandstone, clustered ridge stacks with barley-twist cans centered in the two-storey block, and an apex stack on the east single-storey range. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior of the main building was not inspected in 1998. The ancillary structure is built with tooled cream sandstone rubble and tooled sandstone dressings. The west elevation has a step up to a central timber door, and a large, square-headed opening in the bay to the left. It has a grey slate roof with stone-coped skews. The interior of the ancillary structure was partially used for storage; the remainder was not inspected in 1998.

A round-arched, tooled sandstone coping sits atop a pointed rubble wall, enclosing the site. Square-plan, corniced sandstone gatepiers with flat caps flank the west entrance, while later square-plan piers are present to the north. Two-leaf modern iron gates complete the entrance.