OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL

OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, PENELLAZ HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297619
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, PENELLAZ HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297619
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, PENELLAZ HILL

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:: OLD MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, PENELLAZ HILL

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Helston
National Grid Reference:: SW 65599 27558

Details

HELSTON

SW6427 PENELLAZ HILL 631-1/4/198 (South side) Old Mathematical School

GV II

Former literary and scientific institute, now part of freemasons' hall. Datestone 1799. Faced coursed greenstone, granite dressings including ashlar plinth, quoins, jambstones, voussoirs, mid-floor string and frame of triangular pediment to front with scrolled kneelers; asbestos slate roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys; principal 1st-floor with round-arched window openings, blind to symmetrical 1-window front end and 4-window range to right-hand return. 2x12-pane horned sashes on the left and 2 openings blocked with brick on the right. INTERIOR not inspected. The pedimented gable of this building is a prominent feature of the Helston townscape. It marks an important phase in the social history of the town, built at a time when Helston was benefiting from the tin mining industry and fine villas, such as in Cross Street, were erected in the vicinity. (Information from Martin Matthews of Helston Museum).

Listing NGR: SW6559927558

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Legacy System number:: 385550
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.