Collaton St Mary School
COLLATON ST MARY SCHOOL, BLAGDON ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 838
Bovett, R, Historical Notes on Devon Schools, (1989), 244
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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