Dunoon Primary School is a school in

Dunoon Dunoon (; ) is the main town on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located on the western shore of the upper Firth of Clyde, to the south of the Holy Loch and to the north of Innellan. As well as forming part of the cou ...

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, Scotland. It is located in a

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building dating from 1901. The school accommodates 300 pupils.

History

The site was the original 1641 location of

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, now on Ardenslate Road. There is evidence of an

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at Dunoon from the latter part of the 15th century. No remains of the Bishop's Palace now exist, with the site now occupied by the playground of the school. The building's architect was

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native

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, who was asked to design an extension to an earlier infants' school building (designed in 1880 by Robert Alexander Bryden and which burned down in 1958). Built in the

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style, the structure was constructed using blonde

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and harling. 1907 additions were done by Boston, Menzies and Morton. The gymnasium wing was added by Robert Cameron in 1934. In December 2014,

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pledged £3.5 million for the refurbishment of the primary school and applied for funding from the government. In March 2015, the Scottish government provided an additional £4 million in funding as part of their £1.8 billion "Scotland's Schools for the Future" programme to retain the school's listed building status. The

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caused the refurbishment of the building to be halted in March 2020, with work not resuming until June 2020. Despite this, the building reached practical completion in November 2020.

Janitors House

Janitors House is a single-storey attic cottage adjoining the school.

References

External links

Dunoon Primary School's official websiteHillfoot Street, Dunoon Primary School and Janitor's House
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History

Janitors House

See also

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