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Latitude: 55.6079 / 55°36'28"N
Longitude: -4.2825 / 4°16'56"W
OS Eastings: 256315
OS Northings: 637289
OS Grid: NS563372
Mapcode National: GBR 3Q.MRLG
Mapcode Global: WH3QF.59ZQ
Plus Code: 9C7QJP59+52
Entry Name: Nursery, Ranoldcoup Road, Darvel
Listing Name: Mair's Free School, Front Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates Ranoldcoup Road
Listing Date: 27 April 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360453
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24495
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360453
Location: Darvel
County: East Ayrshire
Town: Darvel
Electoral Ward: Irvine Valley
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: School building
1863, William Railton, architect single storey school building with
classical show front. Pink sandstone with red sandstone dressings.
Central gable with 3-light round headed window (cast-iron geometric
lights) and stone setting for clock face (clock removed). Dentilled
skews, anthemion at gablehead. Flanking porches with Roman-Doric
columns IN ANTIS, pediments with anthemia and acroteria. Round headed doorways in porches, that on left domestic, on right double door, both with fanlights. Later addition on N not included in listing. Original school building 6 bays, snecked rubble with 4 bay extension in identical style, but in darker stone. Side openings segment-headed, on S front paired in second bay from W in original building and on first bay of extension.
Front boundary wall sandstone ashlar, with rounded cope; gate and terminal piers rustic ashlar, with base course and heavy gableted copes with acroteria two-leaf modern mild steel gates.
An unusually ornate charity school.
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