Primary School & Playsheds, Town Yetholm

The Primary School and Playsheds in Town Yetholm were built in 1831 by Clark & Balmin, who were wrights and masons from Kelso, with later alterations made. The school is a single-storey building with an irregular plan that previously included a schoolhouse, and it features a 1992 addition to the south. The structure is constructed from rubble whinstone with contrasting broached sandstone ashlar, showcasing long and short quoins and surrounds to openings, chamfered reveals, and swept and overhanging eaves.

On the north elevation, there are six bays, with an advanced gabled entrance located in the penultimate bay from the left. This entrance includes a doorway with a stone pentice canopy, a boarded door, a two-pane fanlight, and an oculus set in the gable head. To the right of the centre and in the outer right bays, there are tripartite windows that break the eaves, while the remaining bays feature pentice-canopied tripartite windows.

The south elevation has a new harled wing adjoining the outer right, which includes two groups of three windows. Each group consists of a lower central window flanked by windows that break the eaves under swept piended roofs.

The west elevation has three bays recessed from the right, with a single window breaking the eaves in the outer right bay. There is a flat-roofed enclosed porch in the central bay, with a boarded door on the left return and a tripartite window in the outer left bay.

The east elevation features an enlarged tripartite window and a new harled wing adjoining the outer left.

Inside, the building has been much altered, but there is a plain plaster cornice in the main schoolroom. The windows are timber sash and case, with a variety of glazing patterns, including some leaded lights. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate.

The playsheds are rectangular in plan and have piend roofs, arranged symmetrically along a north-south axis. They are built with materials and detailing similar to the school, though the original cast-iron columns have been replaced with steel columns. A scalloped conical ventilator cap is located on the east side.