Ancillary Building, Balrossie School, Kilmacolm

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/08/2004 Local Authority Inverclyde Planning Authority Inverclyde Parish Kilmacolm NGR NS 34260 69238 Coordinates 234260, 669238 — David Barclay, 1898-99. 2-storey, roughly rectangular, Scottish Renaissance orphanage with gothic details. Piended roof with prominent gabled section to centre. Stepped principal frontage with towers, gable, oriel window and buttresses; 2 single-storey service wings extending from rear; bay windows to side elevations. Roughcast render over whinstone rubble with painted red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; deep bracketed eaves. Raised long and short quoins and window margins; predominantly stone-mullioned bipartite windows. EAST (PRINCIPLE) ELEVATION: entrance lobby to right of centre with round turret behind; broad gable to centre with oriel window; 3-storey crenellated tower to left of gable with shouldered diagonal buttress; irregularly fenestrated sections flanking to each side; piend-roofed tower slightly advanced to outer left. Roll-moulded, depressed-arch doorpiece in gabled sandstone architrave with cartouche to tympanum; flanking shouldered buttresses; dormered, round-arched window above. Oriel window to 1st floor of gable with decorative carved corbels, shouldered supporting buttress, sidelights, and traceried semicircular window above; ball finial to gable. NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS: irregularly fenestrated, 3-bay elevations. 2-storey canted window to left bay of South elevation. Single-storey rectangular bay window diagonally set across NE corner. WEST (REAR) ELEVATION: gable to centre with tripartite window at 1st floor; fairly regular fenestration to bays. 2 long single storey service ranges extending to W. INTERIOR: access not possible. Timber sash and case windows: plate glass glazing to front;

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.