Saint Brigid's National School

Detached six-bay double-height girls' national school, built 1938; dated 1938, on a symmetrical plan with two- or three-bay single-storey flat-roofed "pavilions" centred on three-bay single-storey flat-roofed breakfront. Closed, 1992. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with concrete ridge tiles, slightly sproketed or swept eaves, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening below drag edged rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1938") with rendered surround having stepped reveals framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars with three-over-three timber sash windows to rear (south) elevation having horizontal glazing bars. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping.

A national school erected to a standardised design produced (1938) by the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an integral component of the twentieth-century built heritage of Ballycastle. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a national school making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural village street scene (cf. 31201010).