Hamilton Grammar School, Auchincampbell Road, Hamilton

Hamilton Grammar School, located on Auchincampbell Road in Hamilton, was designed by Cullen, Lochhead and Brown, begun in 1910 and opened in 1913 as Hamilton Academy. The building features a classical style with some French neo-classical details and has a quadrangular plan with a symmetrical ashlar frontage that rises three stories.

The main block has a twelve-window main facade, with pavilion-roofed channelled one-window advanced ends. The center features a two-window bay that is channel-pilastered and topped with a segmental pediment containing a swagged clock visible through the ground and first floors. There is a single-storey open porch with square piers that are treated as broad panelled Doric pilasters, and a heavy entablature with a blocking course. The end bays include shallow porches with tall stair windows that are recessed in concave splays, and arched second-floor windows that have corbelled iron balconies. The intermediate bays feature bipartite windows at the ground floor and single lights above, with heavy apron blocks linking the ground and first-floor windows. The second-floor balcony is continuous except where interrupted by the pediment, and architraves are present throughout.

The building has lower three-storey, three-window piended wings with rusticated doorpieces. There is an asymmetrical single-storey, two-window block to the left that includes a ventilator and two corniced stacks. The main block has fourteen-window side elevations, with a door and porch located to the east at the eighth window from the right, and an eleven-window north elevation that features a large tall ashlar stack. The eaves cornice is prominent, and the roof is slated.

In the grounds, there is a single-storey building in a similar style, which has three-window end gables and a six-window center, although it has been much added to. The front features four square corniced ashlar gatepiers and two additional piers on Union Street, accompanied by a low wall and railings.