Seafield Street, Kingswell Nursery School, Banff
Description: Seafield Street, Kingswell Nursery School
Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 15 March 1995
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22097
OS Grid Coordinates: 368530, 864266
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6672, -2.5292
Location: Kingswell Park, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1EP
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1EP
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Listing Text
Dated 1889. Single storey T-plan school; dark local whinstone, tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. Centre advanced gable (long arm of T) with pair large round-headed windows flanked by lean-to porches, each door with flanking lights and double leaf-plank doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Large tripartite window in each return gable. Multi-pane glazing with timber astragals and window frame. Slate roof with original diminutive triangular vents; tall corniced end stacks.
ENCLOSING WALLS: school enclosed 3 sides with high coped rubble walls. Lower walls front street with centre pair widely spaced gatepiers and second pair as pedestrian entrance.
Notes:
Plaque in central gable inscribed 'The Ramsay School AD 1889'.
Source: Historic Scotland
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