Troon Primary School, Barassie Street, Troon

Troon Primary School, Barassie Street, Troon

This school building was constructed circa 1900, with a significant addition designed by James Miller and dated 1908, plus a single-storey rear wing added in the later 20th century.

The original structure is a near square-plan, two-storey block of four bays by six bays, with advanced two-storey gabled ends. The 1908 addition to the north-east is a rectangular-plan extension of twelve bays, divided into grouped sections of three, six, and three bays. A single-storey, four-bay wing extends beyond this. Throughout, the walls are constructed from squared and snecked stugged red sandstone with polished sandstone dressings. The basement is coursed bull-faced sandstone in parts. The original block features a chamfered base plinth, architraved cill courses at ground and first floors, a raised band course dividing the floors, a raised eaves course, and corniced eaves topped by a polished parapet. Polished quoins frame the corners, with polished long and short surrounds to the chamfered openings. Giant order pilasters flank the shaped gabled bays, and giant order angle pilasters with urn finials crown the corners. Tripartite openings feature narrow side-lights and sandstone mullions. The north-east addition is plainer in detail, with no base course, a moulded eaves course beneath corniced eaves, and shaped gableheads.

A separate single-storey, L-plan janitor's house stands to the west, also built from squared and snecked red sandstone with polished dressings, a raised base course, shaped gableheads, polished quoins, long and short surrounds to openings, and chamfered cills.

Single-storey outbuildings in red brick enclose the north-west boundary, comprising a four-bay storage block, an adjoining bicycle shed with columnar openings, a nine-bay wing with ridge ventilators, and a further red brick bicycle shed beyond.

The south-west entrance elevation features a projecting single-storey porch offset slightly to the right of centre, with a single window above and a shaped gable breaking the parapet. Flanking stairs access advanced corniced doorpieces in the returns to right and left. The doors are replacement two-leaf timber with tripartite fanlights and architraved door-surrounds featuring stylised friezes and guttae beneath the cornice; the word "Boys" is carved at the centre. Tripartite windows at both floors occupy the bay to the left, with a clock face centred in the surmounting gablehead. Single windows at both floors appear in the bay to the outer left, and a recessed bay to the outer right.

The south-east side elevation of the original block shows a two-leaf timber door offset to the right of centre with a small-pane fanlight and narrow side-light to the left, with a single window above. A tripartite window at the first floor is centred in the gablehead, with raised panels above. A tripartite window at ground occupies the bay to the left of the entrance, with a single window above. Tripartite windows at both floors appear in the recessed bay to the outer left. A small single window sits offset to the right of centre at ground, with tripartite windows at both floors in the bay to the outer right. The additional wing features single windows in all bays at ground and first floors, with blind panels centred in skewed gableheads. The single-storey wing has steps to a two-leaf timber door in the bay to the outer left, with a four-light fanlight and architraved door-surround featuring a stylised frieze with guttae beneath the cornice; the word "Girls" is carved at the centre. Single windows in the remaining bays are recessed to the outer right.

The north-west side elevation of the original block shows bipartite windows at both floors in the bay offset to the right of centre, and single windows at both floors in the bay offset to the left, flanking a central wallhead stack. Tripartite windows at both floors occupy the bay to the outer right, with single windows at both floors in the bay to the outer left. The additional block features a single-storey projecting wing offset to the left of centre with a large window above. Single windows at ground appear in three bays to the left, with two large tripartite windows above. Single windows at both floors occupy the remaining bays to the right. The single-storey wing has single windows in a lean-to addition to the right and a bay recessed to the outer left, topped by a coped parapet.

Windows throughout consist of part-stained, small-pane upper and plate glass lower timber sash and case glazing to the original block (some two-pane), and small-pane upper, plate glass lower timber glazing with tilting uppers to the additional block; some skylights are present. The roof is grey slate, piended and platformed, with red ridge tiling and raised stone skews. A coped wallhead stack to the north-west of the original block has missing cans; the north-east additional block has a corniced wallhead stack with circular cans.

The interior features a double-height hall centred in the original block, with a balustraded upper balcony and panelled, combed ceiling pitched at the centre, flanked by rooflights. Central circular ventilators are positioned above. Timber dado rails and plain cornices run throughout, with part-glazed timber panelled doors and round-arched surrounds to openings. Stairs accessing the upper floor feature stone treads, cast-iron balustrades, ball-finialed stylised newels, and timber handrails, with glazed tiles lining the walls in coloured base, regularly-spaced frieze, and coloured dado rail. Central corridors at both floors in the additional wing have a raised, painted dado and are flanked by classrooms with small-pane internal glazing and part-glazed timber panelled doors. Regularly spaced metal partitions with coat-hooks are fitted in the cloakroom.

The janitor's house has an entrance on the south-east elevation with steps to a replacement timber door at the centre, an opaque fanlight, and a single window in the bay to the outer left. A single window is centred in a gabled bay advanced to the outer right, with a polished panel beneath the shaped gablehead and an urn-shaped finial above. The windows feature nine-light upper and two-pane lower timber sash and case glazing. The roof is graded grey slate with red ridge tiling and cast-iron rainwater goods. A red sandstone ridge stack is offset to the left of centre (cans missing), and a coped red brick ridge stack is offset to the right of centre. The interior was not inspected in 1997.

The outbuildings on the south-east (playground) elevation include a four-bay block to the south with regularly spaced five-light segmental-arched windows and five-light skylights aligned above. An adjoining four-bay bicycle shed to the north-east features cast iron columns dividing the bays, with the outer right bay blocked. An adjoining nine-bay wing has a single door at the centre and single doors in the penultimate bays to the outer left and right, with squat single windows in the remaining bays and pitched ridge ventilators aligned above. A four-bay bicycle shed to the north-east adjoins a red brick screen wall, with cast-iron columns dividing the bays. Grey slate roofs throughout are finished with red ridge tiles and raised stone skews in part.

The boundary walls are squared and snecked red sandstone, stepped and enclosing the site, topped with polished coping and fitted with cast-iron railings bearing fleur-de-lys finials. Square-plan piers flank paired entrances to Barassie Street and Burnside Place (partly rebuilt to Barassie Street), with stop-chamfered reveals and tiered, pyramidal caps featuring stylised gablets centred in each facet. Two-leaf cast iron gates with fleur-de-lys finials hang from the piers.