Allan's Primary School, 29 Spittal Street, Stirling

Allan’s Primary School, located at 29 Spittal Street, Stirling, was designed by Ronald Walker in 1888 and refurbished in 1991. It is a two-storey and raised basement building, with four bays, constructed from yellow sandstone in a Queen Anne style and originally served as a board school. The exterior is of stone-cleaned ashlar with roughly squared rubble to the sides and rear, and dressed ashlar margins. It features a deep base course, band and cill courses, channelled masonry, a cavetto cornice to the principal floor, and cill, impost, and eaves courses to the first floor. The windows are arched, with keystones, architraved surrounds to the ground floor, chamfered arrises, stone transoms and mullions.

The north-east (principal) elevation is symmetrical. The raised basement has a low gabled extension with symmetrical fenestration projecting to the centre bays, and altered tripartite windows to the outer bays. The principal floor features four-part transomed windows to the centre bays and six-part transomed windows to the flanking bays, with the inscription 'ALLAN'S SCHOOL' on a central frieze. The first floor’s centre bays have four-part transomed windows breaking the eaves into tall, finialled, curvilinear gableheads, adorned with swagging and a shell motif within a crowning semicircular pediment. The outer bays of the first floor have altered depressed arch windows with flanking paired pilasters and diminutive scrollwork above the impost course, each breaking the eaves into a dominant pediment with an arrowslit. The left pediment is inscribed with 'STIRLING BURGH' and the right with 'SCHOOL BOARD'.

The north-west elevation is six bays wide, with six-part transomed windows on each floor. A dormerhead breaks the eaves in an ashlar bay to the outer left and a small porch projects immediately to the right, featuring a semicircular-pedimented arch on its return to the left, abutting a boundary wall. The symmetrical fenestration is punctuated by a slightly advanced centre bay breaking the eaves into a pedimented belfry and a mansard roof to the outer right.

The south-east elevation is symmetrically fenestrated. An altered door and small projecting porch with a paired arch linked by a centre panel inscribed 'GIRLS AND INFANTS' and a semicircular pediment above on the return to the right, and a broad depressed arch on the return to the left, are visible.

The south-west elevation has been altered but retains an advanced gable in the centre and mullioned windows to the left.

The building now has modern windows. The roof is covered with grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews include moulded skewputts on the south side.

The boundary walls are constructed of stugged, squared rubble with saddleback coping and inset decorative iron railings.