Blackwater Literary Institute
BLACKWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312854
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwater Literary Institute
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312854
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwater Literary Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE
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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.
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:
- BLACKWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE
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 73612 46058
Details
CHACEWATER BLACKWATER SW 74 NW 1/50 Blackwater Literary Institute - GV II Literary Institute. 1889. Built for John Passmore Edwards (donor). Killas with granite quoins and sills and brick jambs and arches. Dry Delabole slate roofs, half- hipped ends to front range, otherwise with gable ends. Alternate crested and pierced clay ridge tiles and terminal finials. Polychrome brick chimneys over side walls. Rectangular plan with entrance projection, wing to rear, left (west) with attached room to north. Single storey. Symmetrical 4-window south west front. Plinth and hoodmoulds over openings. Central round-headed entrance in projecting gabled bay with inscribed plaque over doorway. Flanking paired and segmental arched window openings with stopped chamfers. Original segmental arched sashes with marginal panes of coloured glass. Interior not inspected. At the opening ceremony in 1890 the donor said, "Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to give this to my native village, and within a hundred yards of my old home where memories of boyhood cling around the place". (The Life and Good Works of John Passmore Edwards by R.S. Best). This is the first of many gifts to Cornwall by Passmore Edwards and appropriately to the inhabitants of Blackwater, his place of birth.
Listing NGR: SW7361246058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Best, R S, The Life and Good Works of John Passmore Edwards, (1981)
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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