Glengowan Primary School, Union Street, Larkhall

Dated 1895, with a rear extension added in 1901, Glengowan Primary School is a two-storey, symmetrical, three-bay board school situated on Union Street in Larkhall. The original building is constructed of bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, featuring a base course, cill courses at ground and first floors, cornices with eyebrow pediments over the ground floor windows, and an eaves course. Long and short surrounds frame the windows, with stone mullions and transoms at the first floor level. Pilasters flank the central bay, and bracketed pilasters are positioned around the pedimented bays at the first floor. Long and short quoins add to the detailing. A regularly fenestrated, L-shaped block of stugged cream sandstone ashlar was added in 1903 to the right (south) side of the main school.

The west (Union Street) elevation showcases two bipartite windows with eyebrow pediments closely spaced at ground level in the central bay. Above, at the first floor, two transomed bipartite windows break the eaves. A carved inscription reads 'LARKHALL SCHOOL BOARD', flanked by scrolls below a finialled, triangular-headed pediment. To the right, three windows are arranged at ground level, with a transomed three-light window breaking the eaves at the first floor, topped by a scrolled pediment featuring a carved date panel displaying '1895'. A similar arrangement is present on the left side, with panels containing the initials 'LSB'.

The east (Academy Street) elevation is seven bays wide and near-symmetrical, featuring a flat-roofed, single-storey entrance porch to the right of center. A bipartite window is at ground level in the central bay, while a dated, finialled, triangular-headed pediment displaying ‘1901’ tops a three-light window breaking the eaves at the first floor. There is a window at each floor in the bay to the left, a pedimented bipartite window at the first floor in the penultimate bay from the left, and a window at each floor in the bay furthest to the left. A three-light window is positioned in the entrance porch bay, with a window above. A transomed and pedimented bipartite window, breaking the eaves, is found in the penultimate bay from the right, with a window at each floor in the outer right bay. A flat-roofed, covered play area, supported by iron columnar supports, is located in the playground to the northeast of the site.

The windows are predominantly eight-pane timber sash and case, with hopper windows above the transoms. The roof is grey/green slate with a red clay ridge. The rear wing (1901) has a pitched roof with a red clay ridge, coped pediments, and coped skews to the north and south gable ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1997.

Boundary walls, gate piers, and railings are prominent features. On Union Street, two pairs of corniced, chamfered square-plan sandstone ashlar piers exist; the left pair bears the inscription 'GIRLS,' and the right pair reads 'BOYS,' both featuring flattened scrolls. A low, bull-faced wall with a ridged cope connects them, alongside Art Nouveau style wrought-iron railings and gates. On Academy Street, a single pair of chamfered square-plan sandstone piers has a blank panel below the cornice and flattened scrolls to the sides; a low stugged sandstone wall with a ridged ashlar cope connects them, and the railings have been replaced but are matched to those on Union Street.