THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL

THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL, INSTITUTE HILL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297626
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address:: THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL, INSTITUTE HILL

User submitted image — Uploaded by Steve Turner This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Reference:: IOE01/04947/12
Rights:: © Mr Michael Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297626
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL, INSTITUTE 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL, INSTITUTE HILL

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Porthleven
National Grid Reference:: SW6283225500

Details

HELSTON

SW6225 INSTITUTE HILL, Porthleven 631-1/6/258 The Bickford Smith Institute and 18/03/91 attached wall

GV II

Institute including library and clock tower. 1883-4. Coursed and dressed granite; stone-coped Welsh slate roof; stone end stacks. L-plan with clock tower to south-west angle. 2 storeys. 3-window first-floor range to Institute Hill. Horned 4/4-pane narrow sashes set in 2-light square-headed ground-floor windows with chamfered jambs; first floor has horned 2/2-pane sash with chamfered jambs flanked by gabled half dormers with horned 3/3-pane sash. Elevation to Cliff Road has similar narrow sashes in similar 2-light windows flanking full-height canted bay window with similar sashes; porch to right end wall with plank door and moulded kneelers to lean-to roof. 3-stage clock tower has hoodmould over chamfered pointed-arched doorway and Caernarvon-arched window to battered lower stage; middle stage has tall paired lancets; upper stage, housing clocks to each face, is corbelled out and has crenellated parapet; spire clad in sheet copper (1991). INTERIOR: plain with panelled doors. Subsidiary features: wall curves round from clock tower to front Institute Hill elevation.

Listing NGR: SW6283225500

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 385484
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.