St Angnes (Old) School, Including Rear Courtyard Walls, Railings and Gate
ST ANGNES (OLD) SCHOOL, INCLUDING REAR COURTYARD WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, BRITISH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141534
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Angnes (Old) School, Including Rear Courtyard Walls, Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANGNES (OLD) SCHOOL, INCLUDING REAR COURTYARD WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, BRITISH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141534
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Angnes (Old) School, Including Rear Courtyard Walls, Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANGNES (OLD) SCHOOL, INCLUDING REAR COURTYARD WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, BRITISH ROAD
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:
- ST ANGNES (OLD) SCHOOL, INCLUDING REAR COURTYARD WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, BRITISH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 72194 50573
Details
ST AGNES BRITISH ROAD SW 75 SW 4/131 St Agnes (old) School, including rear courtyard walls, railings and gate - GV II
Former school, including front and rear courtyard walls, railings and gates. Circa 1874. Coursed dressed Killas with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with gable ends to principal roofs and half-hipped ends to secondary roofs. Mostly lateral stacks; some stacks have diagonally-set brick shafts. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan plus short wings projecting into the courtyard from the ranges on the left and right. Principal range contains the schoolroom (hall); the other ranges contain the classrooms. The principal entrance is into a porch in the right-hand inner angle. Gothic style details. Exterior: Single storey. Virtually unaltered elevations with most of the openings original; chamfered granite weathering to high plinth. Principal window openings have 4-light mullioned windows with traceried heads and relieving arches over. Most of the other windows are 3-light mullioned windows with transoms. Principal south- south-east (hall) front has central gable with 4-light traceried window flanked by 3- light windows. On the left, over the angle between the main roof and the classroom range at right angles in front of the left-hand side, is a tall octangonal bellcote with a spire. On the right, in the angle,between the hall range and the classroom range in front of the right-hand side, is a porch with 4-centred doorway at the front. Interior has most of its original panelled doors, dado panelling (vertical tongued and grooved boards) and wooden floors. The roof structure is original and said to be well detailed but is hidden by C20 acoustic ceilings. Killas walls surround rectangular courtyard at the front and there are high retaining walls to a shallow courtyard at the rear. The walls have granite coping surmounted by original cast-iron railings with arrow-head finials. Original cross-braced cast- iron gates.
Listing NGR: SW7219450573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63763
- 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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