OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161679
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS
Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161679
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND QUAY WALLS INCLUDING QUAY/YARD WALLS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mawnan
National Grid Reference:: SW 77306 27295

Details

SW 72 NE MAWNAN DURGAN

9/202 Old School House and quay walls - including quay/yard walls

GV II

Former school, now converted to house. Datestone 1876. Base of quay walls probably C18. Roughly coursed faced Killas with granite dressings. Quay walls are vertically set Killas rubble with horizontally-coursed Killas rubble over. Dry Delabole slate roof with fish scale courses and fish scale slates to projecting verges. External stone lateral stack over rear wall. Plan: Rectangular schoolroom with projecting gabled bay at front left, gabled porch at rear right and earth closet with lean-to-store at rear adjoining at the right-hand side towards the rear. Tudor Gothic style. Exterior: l:l-bay south-east front with projecting gable-ended bay with chamfered 3- light mullioned window on the left and 2-light mullioned window on the right. Gable ends left and right each have central 4-light mullioned windows. Rear wall has similar 3-light and 2-light windows. Porch has 2-light window in its rear wall and chamfered doorway in its side wall. Interior: Not inspected. The school is built on a quay which is the school playground. The square-on-plan peninsular quay has walls on 3 sides. The walls have square-edged granite copings. This school replaced an older school at Glendurgan, Durgan, built for Alfred Fox and his wife Sara.

Listing NGR: SW7730627295

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Legacy System number:: 66185
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.