179 Galashiels Road (Former Schoolmaster's House)

This former school, built in 1878, is a near symmetrical, single-storey U-plan structure with prominent gable ends on the outer bays. It is located on raised terraced ground above Galashiels Road and has a detached former schoolmaster's house to the southeast. The building is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone rubble, accented with buff sandstone dressings, and features raised cills. There are separate entrances for boys and girls, with timber bargeboarding on the overhanging eaves and tall pyramidal-capped roof ventilators.

The principal elevation faces west and consists of four bays, with the outer bays having advanced gables. The lower gabled entrance porches for boys and girls project from the re-entrant angles, and a shouldered wallhead stack rises through the overhanging eaves, flanked by gableted bipartite windows that break the eaves. The entrances have timber doors with cast-iron hinges, accompanied by a forestair and turned cast-iron railings. The outer bays also feature low, flat-roofed outshots.

The schoolmaster's house is a two-storey, three-bay L-plan building with an advanced gable on the left. It has a central timber door with a roll-moulded margin and a tri-partite stone-mullioned window to the right, with a dormer window breaking the eaves above. Inside, there are timber doors, simple plaster cornicing, four of the original six servants' bells, and a flagstone floor in the former laundry room.

Both buildings have grey slate roofs and multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. They feature coped end and ridge stacks with octagonal clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.