St Merryn School
ST MERRYN SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289387
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Merryn School
- Statutory Address:
- ST MERRYN SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289387
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Merryn School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MERRYN SCHOOL
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:
- ST MERRYN SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Merryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 87710 73562
Details
ST MERRYN
1525/3/271 SHOP
02-APR-02 ST MERRYN SCHOOL
GV II
Board school and school house. Circa 1876 (datestone); by Silvanus Trevail Stone rubble with brick dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs with gable ends. Brick axial and end stacks to school house on right (east).
Plan: Entrance near centre of south range with school house to right (east) and school to left (west). The school appears to comprise 2 large school rooms and the school house is of overall 'L' shaped plan with a shallow wing projecting to front left.
Exterior: Single storey school and 2 storey school house, the 2 roofs being of similar height. Entrance near centre with gabled porch and shouldered arch. Gable end to school on left has a C19 triple lancet window with narrow slit above. School house to right has a 2-storey gabled bay with double C19 4-bay sashes and a ventilation slit to attic with C19 4-pane sash on first floor to right.
Interiors: Not inspected.
SOURCE: West Briton, Sept. 1876.
Listing NGR: SW8771073562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The West Briton in September, (1876)
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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