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Architecture Notes
Event ID 868062
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/868062
NT37SW 471.00 30195 71816
NT37SW 471.01 NT 30193 71799 Monument
Brick built primary school in the Renaissance style situated immediately W of the Niddrie Burn. Slated roof with large slatted wooden lantern for bell, stone lintels at the windows and doors. On the second floor, moulded pediments above the windows, the room height extending into the roof. The architect was Robert Wilson.
Later brick extensions with slated roofs at W and E ends and a wooden annexe to rear.
Annexe to rear burnt down over weekend 21st-22nd March 2009 and school now lies empty with all windows boarded up.
The school is depicted on the 1st Edition of the OS 25-inch map (Edinburghshire, 1895), which does not depict the monument. The monument first appears on the 2nd Edition (ibid, 1907-1908).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2009.
