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Architecture Notes
Event ID 872586
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/872586
NS43NE 32 45377 36834
Large red ashlar school situated on the E side of Union Street at the junction with Academy Street. Two and three storey blockswith a steeple at SW corner. Inscription 'Riccarton School Board' and carved 'girls' and ' boys' signs above separate entrances. Designed by Andrew and Newlands in 1905.
A school with a different ground plan at this site is depicted as roofed on the 1st and 2nd Editions of the OS 6-inch map (Ayrshire 1860, sheet xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2009
