CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL FALMOUTH ART SCHOOL

CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270086
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:: CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL FALMOUTH ART SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270086
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:: CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL FALMOUTH ART SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE
Statutory Address 2:: FALMOUTH ART SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE

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:: CLARE TERRACE SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE
Statutory Address:: FALMOUTH ART SCHOOL, CLARE TERRACE

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Falmouth
National Grid Reference:: SW 80765 32770

Details

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CLARE TERRACE 843-1/7/76 (North East side) Clare Terrace School (Falmouth Art School)

GV II

Girls' junior school, now part of Falmouth Art School. 1907 datestone. Dressed stone brought to course with granite dressings for plinth coping, quoins, transomed mullioned windows, doorways, and copings to shaped and stepped gabled parapets fronting hips of 3 parallel dry Delabole slate hipped roofs plus window projections to returns; arcaded bellcote with ogee lead roof and weather-vane behind principal entrance; one conical ventilator. Regular overall rectangular plan with central hall/assembly block flanked by classrooms with passages between. Jacobean Revival style. Symmetrical 1:1:2:1:1-bay front. Chamfered mullioned and cross-transomed windows. Nowy-headed dormer window above plaque set between central pair of finialled shaped gables with flanking pilasters; quatrefoils over 4-light windows. Porches in return angles have 3-light overlights set in nowy-headed pediments. End bays set back, with square returns to nowy-headed parapets over larger 3-light windows (similar window to each end of return elevations). Original doors and windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR not inspected. A well-crafted example in a mannered, almost Art Nouveau, interpretation of the Jacobean style commonly adopted for Board schools of the period.

Listing NGR: SW8076532770

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Legacy System number:: 460123
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.