The Bickford Smith Institute and Attached Wall
THE BICKFORD SMITH INSTITUTE AND ATTACHED WALL, INSTITUTE HILL
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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
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- 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
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 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.
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