ST WINNOW SCHOOL

ST WINNOW SCHOOL, POLSCOE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311836
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: ST WINNOW SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ST WINNOW SCHOOL, POLSCOE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311836
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: ST WINNOW SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ST WINNOW SCHOOL, POLSCOE ROAD

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:: ST WINNOW SCHOOL, POLSCOE ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lostwithiel
National Grid Reference:: SX1161659828

Details

LOSTWITHIEL POLSCOE ROAD, Lostwithiel SX 15 NW 8/121 St Winnow School - II

School. Dated 1850, incorporating some earlier structure; with 2 classroom additions of circa 1880 and 1890, some C20 alterations and additions. Includes one re-used granite door head, probably of C17 origin. Said to have been a benefaction of the Foster family of Lostwithiel. Random slatestone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roofs with gable ends and raised coped verges, gable end stack to left end of the main hall. Main hall with porch; attached to rear right parallel to main range, a classroom addition with gable end to rear. The left end of the main hall has a short rear wing, of a former building, heated by a brick ridge stack. 2-storey hall of 5 bays; to left a 2-light granite casement, a gabled porch with doorway with 4-centred hollow-chamfered arch, C20 double doors and inner 4-centred arched doorway with original studded door. To right a 2-light and 3-light granite casement with buttress between. To end right, wide 4-centred arched granite doorway, with re-used head with 4-centred arch and leaves in spandrels, hollow-moulded jambs and double studded doors; hood mould. To right gable end of the hall has 2-light granite casement and breather above. The left gable end has diagonal buttresses and large 3-light mullion and transom window, hollow-chamfered, with hood mould; datestone above with inscription: St Winnow School Rebuilt AD 1850; blind breather above. The rear wing of the main hall, to the left, has gable end and diagonal buttress; the outer side has a doorway with re-used granite jambs, with C20 window inserted; the rear gable end has 2-light granite casement at ground floor and 2 single lights with granite lintels at first floor. The classroom attached to rear right extends to right beyond the main hall; there is a C20 slatestone porch set in the angle to the main hall. The front has 3-light chamfered granite casement, gable end has stack and single storey attached privy. The rear has 3-light and 2-light chamfered granite casements. Attached to the rear centre of the main hall, with gable end to rear, 2nd classroom addition; the rear gable end has 2 tall chamfered granite mullion and transom windows with breather at apex, raised coped verges and kneelers. C20 brick lean-to at outer side. Interior The classrooms were formerly open to the roof, now all with suspended ceilings.

Listing NGR: SX1161659828

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Legacy System number:: 70873
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.