The Gilbert Hall
THE GILBERT HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144365
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Gilbert Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GILBERT HALL
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- Date:
- 1999-09-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/00095/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144365
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Gilbert Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GILBERT HALL
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:
- THE GILBERT HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towednack
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 49666 35997
Details
TOWEDNACK NANCLEDRA SW 43 NE 4/222 The Gilbert Hall 10.10.74 GV II School, now village hall. Circa 1870s, extended late C19 or early C20. Built as a school for children of workers on the Gilbert Estate by the Hon. Mr. Davis Gilbert, later used as a Penny School, then C of E School and after 1927 as the village hall. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Welsh slate roof with gable ends. Truncated external stone lateral stack at middle of original front. Later brick chimney towards rear of left hand gable. Plan: originally a rectangular schoolroom with 2 windows at the front flanking the fireplace; 1 window at the rear middle and doorway at right hand end. Circa late C19 or early C20, a square classroom was added at the left-hand, end lit from the gable end, and a lean-to porch added at the right-hand end. Exterior: original symmetrical 2 window front right with central weathered stack and tall gabled dormer window at either side. Plinth, C20 windows, except for original 3-light window at rear with 3 cast-iron latticed casements. Interior: plain plastered walls and canopied boarded ceiling. Sources : previous list description.
Listing NGR: SW4966635997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70561
- 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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