Godolphin Club
GODOLPHIN CLUB, WENDRON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297644
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Godolphin Club
- Statutory Address:
- GODOLPHIN CLUB, WENDRON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297644
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Godolphin Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- GODOLPHIN CLUB, WENDRON STREET
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:
- GODOLPHIN CLUB, WENDRON STREET
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 66021 27535
Details
HELSTON
SW6527 WENDRON STREET 631-1/5/245 (North West side) 24/03/50 Godolphin Club (Formerly Listed as: WENDRON STREET (North West side) Old Grammar School)
GV II
Grammar school and public rooms. Grammar school 1834. By George Wightwick. Public building 1888-89. Grammar school front is granite ashlar with shaped gabled parapet, the other front is dressed blue stone with granite plinth, windows doorway and moulded string, corbelled freestone 1st-floor buttresses rising through tall coped gabled parapet entablature with shorter intermediate buttresses, all with finials; very steep dry slate front roof; asbestos slate at rear; grouted scantle slate T-plan roof to grammar school; school adjoining at rear right. Gothic-style 2-storey elevations; symmetrical 1:1:1-bay street front, transomed mullioned windows: tall 2-light 1st-floor window with trefoil-headed top-lights and casements with glazing bars. Ground floor has 3-light windows flanking central moulded doorway with corbelled round-arched head; blind Y-traceried fanlight over pair of boarded panelled doors with 4 leaded glazed trefoils. Right-hand return has 1st-floor window similar to front windows to projecting bay on the left; other 4 bays with 4 first-floor openings: 2 tall transomed wooden windows on the left and 2 lights above grammar school on the right; iron fire escape staircase to doorway between. Grammar school has symmetrical 3-bay canted front with central trefoil-headed louvred vent to finialed gable with flanking parapets over 2-light moulded wooden window with square granite hoodmould and leaded lights, over heavily moulded doorway with 4-centred arched head and coat of arms above original pair of studded doors. Flanking bays have slit windows to each floor. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest. (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890; Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1902-1902: 131).
Listing NGR: SW6602127535
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 890
Kellys Directory in Cornwall, (1902), 131
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1902), 131
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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