The School House
THE SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289470
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289470
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE
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:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ervan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 89220 70209
Details
ST ERVAN ST ERVAN SW 87 SE 3/188 The School House
GV II
School and integral school master's house, now a private house. Built in 1856. Local slate rubble. Slurried scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Slate rubble axial stack at the juction of the 2 ranges. Plan: The school room is the main range to the right, probably originally a hall open to the roof. The school master's house is the short cross-wing at the left-hand end; it has a porch at the front in the angle with the main range to the right. There is an axial stack at the junction of the 2 ranges. In circa late C20 the building was converted into a private house and a floor was inserted into the open hall of the schoolroom. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3 window front. The main schoolroom range to the right has 3 tall window openings each with a ground and first floor late C20 casement with glazing bars. The gabled projecting cross-wing to the left is the former school master's house with 2-light casement with glazing bars in the original segmental arched openings on the ground and first floor of the gable end. In the angle to the right a projecting single storey stone rubble gable porch with a pointed arch doorway and a grouted scantle slate roof. Over the ridge at the centre of the main range there is a wooden bellcot, square on plan, with wooden louvered sides and a tiled pyramidal roof. The rear elevation was not inspected. Interior was not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW8922070209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397025
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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