Description
Robert Wilson, 1893. 3-storey T-plan Renaissance school. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble; red sandstone ashlar dressings. Advanced base course; cill courses to upper floors; skews and skewputts; strip quoins; mullions and transoms to windows; white ogee-roofed cupola.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical 2-3-3-3-2 grouping of bays; advanced 2-storey gabled central section; tripartite windows, mullioned and transomed, to centre of ground; transomed windows flanking; 'ROSEBURN SCHOOL' in relief between 2 storeys; mullioned tripartite window to centre of upper floor, surmounted by cornice and semicircular moulding with tympanum inscribed 'AD 1893'; single windows flanking; blind arrow-slit to gable; ball finials to skewputts; recessed flanking sections with single windows (transomed at ground) to both floors of return; transomed and mullioned bipartite windows to centre of ground, flanked by transomed windows; corniced, gable-headed, mullioned bipartite breaking eaves at centre of upper floor; blind arrow-slit to gable; single windows to flanking bays; ball finials to skewputts; recessed gabled 3-storey flanking sections with, to inner bays at ground, recessed round-headed doorways surmounted by corniced decorative panels marked, at left and right sides respectively, 'GIRLS' and 'BOYS'; panelled timber doors flanked to outer sides by mullioned bipartite windows; mullioned tripartites to both upper floors.
NE ELEVATION: advanced section to left with advanced corniced bay to right at ground with tripartite mullioned window; single window to left; 3 windows to upper storey; shouldered wallhead stack; panelled timber door to ground of gabled return, surmounted by 2 small mullioned windows, cornice above; tall window flanking to right; tripartite window to uppermost storey; chamfered window to re-entrant angle; recessed 3-bay section to right; mullioned bipartite window to ground at left, and to floor above; single window to right of chamfered window above; bipartite window to top floor, with cornice and balustrade above, breaking eaves; transomed, mullioned bipartite windows to bays to right at ground; mullioned bipartite windows to floor above, flanked by pilasters; gable pierced by round window breaking eaves to central bay; cornice and balustrade breaking eaves to bay at right.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey; advanced 3-bay section to left; mullioned bipartite window flanked by single windows to ground; mullioned and transomed window to 1st floor, flanked by transomed windows; mullioned bipartite window flanked by single windows to 2nd floor; recessed 4-bay section to right; single windows to ground; tripartite mullioned and transomed windows to 1st floor, flanked by transomed windows; mullioned tripartite window to centre of 2nd floor, breaking eaves in gable; single windows to flanking bays; panelled timber door with tripartite fanlight to left of ground of return; single windows to 2 bays to right; tall transomed window to right of 1st floor; single window to right of 1st floor; recessed gabled section to right with chamfered window in re-entrant angle; panelled timber door surmounted by 2 small mullioned windows to ground of gabled recessed section to outer right, flanked on left by tall single window; single window to left of floor above; mullioned tripartite window to 2nd floor.
SW ELEVATION: not seen 2001.
Variety of multi-paned timber sash and case windows. Green Tilberthwaite slates; gablehead sandstone ashlar stacks to side and rear, some corniced, with moulded cylindrical terracotta cans; corniced base, dentilled cornice and flagpole to cupola behind central gable; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.
JANITOR'S HOUSE: 2-storey, rectangular-plan house. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble; red sandstone ashlar dressings; strip quoins; mullions and transoms to windows; coped skews with ball finials to front elevation.
Tripartite windows to ground of gabled front elevation; bipartite windows to floor above, surmounted by cornice and round-headed moulding enclosing plain tympanum. Lean-to entrance porch with flanking window to right at ground of (right-hand) side elevation; round-headed skew with skew-putts to window to left of upper floor breaking eaves; flanking slit window; irregular distribution of windows to rear; shouldered sandstone ashlar wallhead stack to (left-hand) side, with cylindrical terrracota cans; modern PVCu glazing; slate roof; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: coping stones with modern railings to street; wrought-iron gates with decorative finials; corniced gatepiers with ball finials.