Gardiner Street Primary School — Gardiner Street Upper

Attached multiple-bay two-storey school, built c.1885, with central gabled north projection, lower two-storey projection to south and series of later accretions to north and south. Built as part of ecclesiastical complex of Saint Xaviour’s Church. Pitched slate roof on T-plan with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and set behind slightly raised gables with granite coping and moulded kneeler stones. Replacement metal guttering on moulded red brick eaves course. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rubble calp limestone plinth course having chamfered yellow brick trim. Gauged brick square-headed window openings to first floor, segmental-headed to ground floor and round-headed to gables, with granite sills, replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and with some replacement uPVC windows to ground floor. Recent lean-to slated roof to gable forms porch to south. Original entrance off laneway adjoining southwest gable now absorbed within block with coursed masonry boundary wall showing original blocked entrance door. Buildings set within tarmac playground and enclosed within boundary walls. Interior retains original closed-string polished timber stair with partly exposed feet to roof trusses.