Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Glencalry National School — GLENCALRY UPPER

school
View what I want to do
Glencalry National School — GLENCALRY UPPER
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Detached four-bay single-storey single-cell national school, built 1908; opened 1909; extant 1911, on a rectangular plan. Repaired, 1949. Renovated, 1959. Closed, 1966. Now in occasional alternative use. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening approached by two lichen-spotted steps with cut-limestone lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.