Kea County Primary School and Playground Walls to West and South
KEA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kea County Primary School and Playground Walls to West and South
- Statutory Address:
- KEA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kea County Primary School and Playground Walls to West and South
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KEA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8173742512
Details
SW 84 SW KEA
2/98 Kea County Primary School and
playground walls to west and south
II
Board school, including playground walls. 1879. Shale rubble with granite plinth
coping, buttress quoins, sills, jambstones, mullions, lintels, arch stones and gable
copings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with projecting eaves and coped gables to entrance
front. Original axial tapered brick chimney over middle of rear wall of right-hand
(south) schoolroom and midway to right-hand end of left-hand (north) schoolroom. 2
later brick chimneys over front walls towards left and towards front of gable end,
left.
T-shaped plan of schoolrooms at right angles to each other plus entrance porch
outshut to left (north) leading to lobby at foot of T. Simple Tudor style.
Single storey. Plinth and weathered buttresses between windows and to corners. West
entrance front has 2-stage plinth lean-to porch, left, symmetrical 3-window
schoolroom, and projecting gable of cross wing of other schoolroom, right. All
windows have chamfered mullions. Porch has 3-light window and pointed doorway to
right (south) side wall. Adjoining schoolroom has 4-light window to middle and
flanking 3-light windows. Gable end, right has tall 4-light window with 2 transoms
and trefoil-headed slightly recessed date plaque over. Smaller 2-light window at
opposite (east) end. Symmetrical south front has taller central 3-light window, with
low and high transoms, and rising to dormered roof gable, flanked by 2-light windows.
Interior has pointed arched doorway between schoolrooms, and original roof structure
hidden by C20 ceilings.
Playground wall to west is rubble with roughly dressed granite copings and square,
coursed roughly dressed granite with similar copings to south.
A simple but strong and functional design little altered since built.
Listing NGR: SW8173742512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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