Building record MAB39226 - LOGIE SCHOOLHOUSE

Former school, Category A-listed, built in the late 18th or early 19th century, now in residential use.

Former school, Category A-listed, built in the late 18th or early 19th century, now in residential use. A school is mentioned in the Old Statistical Account (1791) that may be this school, or it could be one of two new school mentioned in the Statistical Account of 1834-45 as having been built in the 19th century. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as a T-plan building with a rectangular building to the north-east, as is depicted as a school. On the 2nd edition OS map it is depicted as a 'Sunday School'. Current maps show the T-plan school building has since been removed. The schoolhouse was used by the Free Church, and the United Free Church, from 1929 until the 1980s. It became disused in 1990 and restored by the NTS as part of their LHIS project in 2004-8, and converted for residential use. It is a single-storey, rectangular plan building that is six bays long and has a piended roof. It is a rare example of a vernacular clay building. There is an early-20th century timber and corrugated-iron gabled porch with a gabled timber bellcote, flanked by a later lean-to. There is a brick ridge stack with thackstane to the south-west end, marking the division between the school room and smaller rooms. Inside, the accommodation is divided into one large room and two smaller rooms to the south-west end. Originally, the large room would have been used as the school room with the smaller rooms forming the schoolmaster's house. The NTS work restored the walls using the same techniques for mud walling. Archaeological works were required in connection with the intended conservation, conversion and extension of the building, which was carried out by Headland in 2006. These works consisted of a limited programme of trial hand excavation, which may be supplemented by historic building recording or a watching brief in the future. The evaluation revealed a number of deposits that related to the 19th century groundworks and remedial drainage works to the schoolhouse building and cottages to the south. A programme of historic building recording was undertaken by AOC Archaeology Group in August-November 2007 to record the former schoolhouse and church prior to renovation and preservation. The study, along with previous historical and cartographical investigations and an on-site condition survey, identified that the building was originally a six by one bay single storey building. The original construction was clay mixed with straw and bonded with pebbles. At some point a hand-made brick facing was applied to the south east, south west and north east sides and a stone rubble facing to the north-west wall. Some of the facing had been replaced on the south-west wall in a slightly newer wire cut brick dating to the late-19th century. The building's original roof was replaced with regular sawn trusses and Welsh slates at some point near the turn of the 19th century. At this time the interior also underwent extensive refurbishment with the addition of timber panelling and new lath and plaster wall coverings to the main classroom.

Period Notes
A school is mentioned in the OSA (1791) that may be this school, or it could be one of two new school mentioned in the Statistical Account of 1834-45 as having been built in the 19th century. It was used as a church between 1929 and the 1980s, but became disused in 1990. It was restored in 2004-8. It was listed on 16/01/2006.

1-312, 1-312 (Ground Photograph). SAB21164.

Author unknown, , PRESS & JOURNAL, 19/09/2008 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1416.

ROMANKIEWICZ, T, 2005, THE SCHOOLHOUSE, LOGIE BY CRAIGO (Bibliographic reference). SAB3160.

GEDDES, G, 2007, DES VOL7, 2006, p.25 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2596.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2008, DISCOVERY & EXCAVATION SCOTLAND, p.33 (D Sproat) (Bibliographic reference). SAB4029.

AOC, 2009, LOGIE SCHOOLHOUSE, LOGIE: HISTORIC BUILDINGS REPORT (Bibliographic reference). SAB3513.

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