COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL

COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL, BLAGDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195093
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL, BLAGDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195093
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL, BLAGDON ROAD

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:: COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL, BLAGDON ROAD

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

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX8637960184

Details

SX86SE 1947-1/2/170

PAIGNTON

BLAGDON ROAD, Collaton St Mary (North East side) Collaton St Mary School

GV II

School. c1866, probably designed by JW Rowell of Newton Abbot, who also designed the parish church (qv), some C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Local red snecked breccia; slate roof; stacks with red breccia shafts , 2 retaining stone caps; crested ridge tiles. PLAN: T-plan, the main block containing two classrooms, heated from gable end stacks, with one original entrance; heated rear wing with a L roof plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a gabled projecting porch with a round headed shouldered outer doorway and a blind trefoil carved in the gable. 2 windows to the right, one to the left, 3- and 4-light with stone mullions and shoulder-headed lights. Probably C20 secondary door inserted to right of porch. The rear wing also preserves 2 original windows in the same style as those on the front. C20 additions at west end and in north east corner. INTERIOR: Plain, the original open roof trusses survive, partly concealed by an inserted ceiling. HISTORY: The school is part of a group of buildings promoted by the Reverend John Roughton Hogg, who had the church built by Rowell in 1867 to commemorate his daughter, Mary Hogg. It was a church school until 1930 when it became a junior school and was granted aided status in 1952 (Bovett). (Buildings of England: Cherry B and Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 838; Bovett, Robert: Historical Notes on Devon Schools: Devon: 1989-: P.244).

Listing NGR: SX8637960184

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 383766
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bovett, R, Historical Notes on Devon Schools, (1989), 244
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 838

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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.