Technical Block, Keil School, Helenslee Road, Kirktonhill, Dumbarton

John Honeyman, architect. Dated 1865 on rainwater head.

Former stable block. Gothick. Stugged ashlar coursers with

polished dressings. Principally 2 single storey wings, with

lofts, arranged in L-plan, forming churchyard. Some openings

have shafted jambs with block capitals. Continuous hood-mould

to courtyard elevations, raised over ground floor openings;

west wing asymmetrical with 2 2-centred-arched cart openings

(now altered to windows) flanked by doors and 1 outer window;

diminutive paired lancets above hoodmould. Loft door with

dovecot in arched moulding in gabled dormerhead; corbelled

oriel, supported on shaft, with cusped lights to south gable.

North wing has former door (now a window) flanked by lancets

all recessed in arcaded pointed panels; moulded eaves;

conical-roofed, 2-storey angle tower to right has

square-headed roll-moulded door; banded at eaves level, with

clock and 2 small lights above. Some flat-roofed 6-pane

dormers; crow-stepped gables throughout; slated roofs. Small

lean-to and hoodmoulded cusped lights to each gable; 3 gables

to west elevation.

Courtyard is cobbled, and is partly enclosed to south and to

east by stugged ashlar wall; 2 square, polished ashlar

gatepiers with gabled caps with cast-iron lamp brackets, to

south. Modern extension to north not included in listing.