Wilton Centre (Former Wilton Parish School) Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, 36 Princes Street

1883 (see NOTES). 2-storey school on steeply sloping site with open arcaded ground floor, stone-mullioned windows in gabled bays above, long stone stair to recessed 1st-floor porch to left, and detached single-storey range to NE. Bull-faced yellow sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. 1st-floor band course to principal block; continuous hoodmoulds to tripartite gable windows; blind oculi in apexes of gables. Long and short quoins. Chamfered window margins.

MAIN BLOCK, SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 8-bay arcaded play shelter at ground (the two leftmost bays blocked); 4 gabled bays above; tripartite mullioned windows with semicircular central fanlights above and blind oculi in apexes. Stone forestair to shouldered, gabled, stop-chamfered stone entrance flanked by single rectangular openings.

MAIN BLOCK, SW (SECONDARY) ELEVATION: Roughly 8 bays, with tripartite mullioned windows and stone dormers breaking eaves of central 2 piend-roofed bays.

SE RANGE: Roughly 8-bay, stepped, gabled block with side entrance to projecting gabled porch.

Non-traditional, early-21st-century glazing following original glazing pattern. Welsh slate roof. Coped, kneelered skews. Coped, octagonal gablehead stacks with octagonal buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Large central hall with corbelled ceiling and rooflights. Stone chimneypieces in some classrooms; metal heating ducts in others, with painted brass control levers in the form of hands. Some tongue-and-groove panelling to dado height.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: 2 square pyramid-capped sandstone gatepiers; low, bull-faced, ashlar-coped sandstone wall with plain railings;