Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

TOXSIDE SCHOOL, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLSLB45829

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
18/11/1998
Local Authority
Midlothian
Planning Authority
Midlothian
Parish
Temple
NGR
NT 28865 53801
Coordinates
328865, 653801

Description

Dated 1847. 2 storey, 2 bay, L plan school. Tooled squared and snecked sandstone with droved dressings. Base course; strip quoins; crowstepped gables.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; advanced gabled bay to right with infilled window to centre of ground; window centred to 1st floor; tooled panel above reading "THIS SCHOOL WAS ERECTED AND PARTLY ENDOWED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THIS DISTRICT OF THE PARISH OF TEMPLE BY THE REVEREND JAMES GOLDIE WHO FOR THE LONG PERIOD OF 58 YEARS WAS MINISTER OF THE PARISH A.D. 1847"; vertical recess set in gablehead; ball finial to apex. Architraved doorway reached by stone steps to ground of left return with glazed timber door; replacement single pane window off centre to right of 1st floor . Window to ground of bay to left; window to 1st floor breaking eaves, carved stone thistle finial.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3 bay; infilled section to centre of ground; windows to flanking bays; window to centre of 1st floor; gabled window to bay to left breaking eaves, carved stone thistle finial.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 bay; slightly advanced bay to right; window to centre of ground. Architraved doorway to centre of left bay with timber door; window to centre of 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: blank.

Predominantly 12 pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof with lead ridge; crowstepped stone skews and moulded skewputts. Cement faced coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS: tooled random rubble to E and S of school with semi circular coping.

Statement of Special Interest

Now in use as a dwelling house. Toxside School accommodated 47 children, from the local farming community, who were taught in the single room on the ground floor, while the teacher lived on the 1st floor above.

References

Bibliography

TEMPLE HERITORS MINUTE BOOK 1784-1934, (SRO HR 774/3); NMRS: Plan of Toxside School built by the Rev James Goldie and ground feud by William Tait Burton, Esq. to the Heritors of the Parish of Temple, 1848; 1st (1852) & 2nd (1892) Edition OS Maps; F H Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, (1885), Vol 6, p434; J Thomas, MIDLOTHIAN: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE, (RIAS), (1995), p103, ill p103.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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