91 High Street And St James Hall (Formerly St James Rc School And Schoolhouse) Including Boundary Walls

John Biggar, 1876 with later 20th century additions and alterations. Simple, gabled, gothic style former school building with 2-storey schoolhouse to rear forming L-pan, and paired entrance porches to side (W) elevation. Later 19th century 2-storey rendered extension to schoolhouse (S) gable. Squared whinstone rubble with raised vermiculated quoins and window dressings; render to rear. Round-arched tripartite window to N with trefoil above; carved stone finials to gables. Stop-chamfered margins. Single storey extension to side.

Diamond-paned leaded glazing to school; timber sash and case windows and modern casements to 20th century extension. Narrow boarded entrance doors with decorative strap hinges. Graded grey slates; stone skews with beaked skewputts. Large rectangular ridge stack with octagonal clay cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low whin rubble wall with chamfered ashlar copes to front.

INTERIOR: front section comprises open plan main hall with timber tongue and groove dado panelling to walls and black marble chimneypiece. Arched, king-post trussed roof structure with ball bosses supported on carved stone corbels. 21st century freestanding oak framed kitchen structure with spiral stair to mezzanine floor. Former schoolhouse to rear has original stair with cast-iron banisters.