Paxton, the Schoolhouse Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Probably later 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, near T-plan Italianate former schoolhouse with lean-to porch in re-entrant angle to front. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone; droved dressings. Base course; string course between floors; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Narrow quoins strips; droved margins to round-arched openings; sandstone mullions; bracketed cills. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: lean-to porch at centre with modern door and round-arched fanlight centred beneath gablehead. Single window at ground in bay recessed to outer right. Full-height gabled projection to left with tripartite window centred at ground; bipartite window at 1st floor. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled bay slightly advanced at centre with bipartite windows centred at both floors. Single windows flanking at ground; single windows with panelled aprons aligned above. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1999. 4-pane horizontal glazing in timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; timber bargeboards. Corniced ridge stacks; cans missing. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
© Crown Copyright text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Adjacent to and contemporary with the former village school, itself built in 1873 and closed in 1972 - see separate list entry, 'Paxton, The Old School'. The round-arched windows, bracketed cills and overhanging eaves are similar to those found on the nearby Thorn Cottage - itself once the village school and now a private residence (see separate list entry, 'Paxton, Thorn Cottage').
Listed Building References
© Crown Copyright text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ordnance Survey map, 1862 (not evident). Ordnance Survey map, 1898 (evident).