Milton Primary School, Dumbarton Road, Milton

This is a school building dating from 1905, designed by Stewart and Paterson in a Greek cross plan with Renaissance style and Baroque detailing. It is a 2 to 3-storey structure with 8 bays. The building is constructed of squared, stugged red sandstone with ashlar dressings. A roll-moulded ashlar base course runs around the building, along with a moulded first floor sill course, a dentilled cornice interrupted by open pediments, and a continuous blocking course. Gibbs surrounds feature on the first-floor windows. A small, modern, single-storey extension has been added to the rear.

The south elevation is the main facade, with a central six-bay section projecting forward, flanked by recessed entrance bays. The central bays have paired tripartite windows on each floor, with moulded architraves to the ground floor. Segmental-headed first-floor windows are accented by brackets beneath the sill and prominent keystones within open pediments. The 3-storey entrance bays have raised ashlar doorways with shouldered architraves and broken semicircular pediments containing square windows; signage is incorporated into the friezes. Small windows are located on the first floor of the entrance bays.

The east and west elevations feature wide, full-height canted bays with three floors of four square windows arranged around a central block. The north elevation has a pair of triple windows on the single-storey central block, with a single-storey toilet block to the left and a single door to the right. The main block on this elevation is harled.

The original building includes 2-leaf panelled outer doors, and a panelled glazed inner door on the east side (a modern replacement exists to the west). Tall 3-pane timber sash and case windows are found within the central block, while the canted bays have 4-pane top-hoppers. The roof is piended and covered in grey slate, topped with a Baroque ventilator spire featuring a bell-cast lead cupola and Doric columns with a heavy cornice. Large rooflights are set into the ridge of the main block. Corner stacks are located on the rear elevation. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, with trefoil fixings on the downpipes. A corner wall-mounted flagpole is also visible.

The interior features a 2-storey central hall with classrooms leading off. Wrought iron railings define a balcony. Doric columns and half columns, featuring a rosette band, are found on the end walls, with a semicircular arch spanning the central bay on the first floor. Square pillars are located on the ground floor. Decorative ventilation grilles have keystoned, shouldered architraves. The roof structure is a depressed arch-braced collar rafter roof, supported by sandstone brackets and with a steel ridge. Boarded timber panelling extends to dado height throughout the building, with panelled doors glazed to the upper half. Glazed and panelled concertina screens divide rooms, and the stair construction is of steel. The boundary wall has plain railings, with occasional decorative panels; chamfered copes define the west and south edges, and brick walls form the north and east boundaries. Decorative wrought-iron gates are set into square-section piers with dentilled capstones. A later, single-storey, pitched roof timber building sits within the yard to the rear.