Survey Data
Reg No
40403910
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
255347, 285354
Date Recorded
18/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey national school, built 1862, now partly in ruins with rear wall removed. Steeply pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks to gables, and cast-iron gutter to front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls. Limestone plaque above entrance reading ‘GARRYROSS N.S. 1862-1960’. Bipartite two-over-two timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber sheeted entrance door with exposed timber lintel. Sections of random rubble boundary walls with rendered square-profile piers and forged metal pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
An interesting example of a rural national school that is unfortunately now in a ruinous state. The distinctive bipartite windows are of particular aesthetic quality and the traditional plain sheeted doors add to the building's traditional character. The building is an important physical feature in the social history of the area. It makes an eyecatching addition to the rural landscape in its prominent roadside location.