Tregye, the Duchy Grammar School
TREGYE, THE DUCHY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140898
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tregye, the Duchy Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- TREGYE, THE DUCHY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04590/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140898
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tregye, the Duchy Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREGYE, THE DUCHY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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:
- TREGYE, THE DUCHY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Feock
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 80885 40132
Details
SW 84 SW FEOCK
2/33 Tregye, The Duchy Grammar School
II
Country house, now used as school. 1809. Built for William Penrose, extended and remodelled late C19. Elvan ashlar walls and chimneys. Hipped dry Delabole slate roof with slightly projecting eaves and gabled roof dormers. Rectangular plan 3-room wide and 2-rooms deep with thick cross chimney walls and axial passage leading to stairs at right-hand side. Original canted bay projecting to middle room (east) and late C19 1-shaped service wing attached to rear of north end. 2 storeys plus attic over basement. Symmetrical 5-window east garden front with central canted bay with 3 windows flanked by 1-window bays with windows closer to side walls. Basement as plinth. Plain parapet survives to central bay with 2- window. Large later gable dormer over. Left-hand dormer window is now door. Flat arches with projecting keystones over original openings with 12-pane hornless sashes. 4-window south entrance front has C20 flat roofed single storey extension to middle obscuring original entrance to third ground floor opening from left with initials W.P. and date 1809 over. Arch and jambs are slightly recessed, and scalloped decoration of voussoirs is repeated in glazing pattern. Dormers have ashlar gables of probably reused stone of dismantled parapet. Original stair window to north. Interior has much surviving early C19 detail including panelled window shutters, some original doors, some panelled reveals, and plaster ceiling cornices. Small room to south east has original moulded cornice. Room to south west has simple moulded ceiling band and central room to north of this has moulded cornice and ceiling band. Central front room is octagonal with inner partition reflecting the canted bay. Ceiling has trailing rose band and central rose with carvings of the fruits of harvest. Late C19 open-well open-string stair with turned balusters, (turnings divided by mid-way square block) mahogany handrail and turned newel posts with turned finials. Revival style of early C18 type but in position of original stair. First floor and attic not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW8088540132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63308
- 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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