The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312690
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/03492/23
- Rights:
- © Margaret Hocking. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312690
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
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 OLD SCHOOL, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 80771 47608
Details
KENWYN SCHOOL LANE, Shortlanesend SW 84 NW 3/185 The Old School - II Board school now retail premises. 1876. Killas rubble with dressed freestone quoins, copings, sills, jambstones, mullions, arches and bellcote. Asbestos slate roof with coped gables and steep pyramidal stone roof to bellcote. 2 slender brick axial chimneys over cross walls. Plan of central school room with entrance lobby to left (north) with entrance under projecting bellcote plus classroom to each end in cross wings with projecting gable ends to front (west). Gothic style. Single storey. Nearly symmetrical west front with plinth unbalanced by belltower. 3-window nearly central schoolroom with taller central window rising to gabled dormer with stepped cusped lights (lower part removed C20 to make doorway), flanking 2-light windows with shouldered heads. Entrance through tall pointed arched doorway to porch, left of schoolroom, with bellcote over. Bellcote has 3 lights to each side with cornice below squat stone spire with crockets near apex. Identical projecting coped gables to cross wings far left and right each with stepped 3-light window with trefoil-headed lights and transoms between mullions. Some C20 render to gables. South wall has inscribed plaque within pointed arched niche pointed arched doorway with original door to right. Interior very simple but retains original scissor-braced pine roof structure. In spite of the recent alterations it still retains many of the gothic style features including the prominent bellcote.
Listing NGR: SW8077147608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63285
- 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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