Blackwater County Primary School

BLACKWATER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312413
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Blackwater County Primary School
Statutory Address:
BLACKWATER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312413
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Blackwater County Primary School
Statutory Address 1:
BLACKWATER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BLACKWATER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Agnes
National Grid Reference:
SW 73420 46070

Details

ST AGNES BLACKWATER SW 74 NW 7/126 Blackwater County Primary School - II

Board school. Datestone 1877 extended circa later C19. Faced killas, elvan dressings and granite quoins. Dry Delabole slate over extension,, otherwise asbestos slate. Gabled roofs, 2 old conically-capped ventilators. Stone lateral stack with brick shafts. Plan: Original school is a U-shaped plan. Probably the principal schoolroom (hall) in the main range with entrance lobbies at either side and a classroom wing at either end projecting forward at the front. Principal entrance has porch in the left-hand inner angle. Circa later C19 class-room wing added on the left of the original left- hand wing. Gothic style details. Exterior: Single storey. Unaltered elevations with original doors. Original wooden mullioned windows and hoodmoulds. Original south-east front has gable end projecting forward on the left and gable end of cross wing projecting forward on the right. Each of these gables has a 3-light traceried window porch in left-hand angle has Y- traceried 2-light window at the front and pointed-arched doorway in its right-hand side. 3-light window with pointed arched lights, right of middle with date plaque in gable over, and on the right near the angle is a pointed arched doorway with a traceried overlight. Later extension on the left has a 3-light pointed arched window under a gable at the front on its right. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7342046070

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Legacy System number:
63758
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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