OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT

OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320600
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, FORE STREET

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Date:: 2003-10-21
Reference:: IOE01/11013/16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320600
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, FORE STREET

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:: OLD SCHOOL AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, FORE STREET

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Endellion
National Grid Reference:: SW9964080893

Details

SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION FORE STREET, (west side), Port Isaac 9/64 Old School and railings to front GV II School and schoolmasters house now hotel with iron railings and gate-piers to front. 1877. By Silvanus Trevail. (Datestone and memorial plaque). Stone rubble, partly rendered, with freestone dressings. Bitumen coated steeply sloping slate roof with gable ends and projecting gables to main elevations. Roof with decorative C19 fish scale slates and crested ridge tiles. Brick axial chimney stacks with side lateral stack to schoolmaster's house. Comprised 2 large school rooms arranged in a U-shaped plan with entrance near centre. Right-hand wing further extended with cross wing containing schoolmaster's house of 2-room plan. Now divided into a series of hotel suites. Gothic style. 2 storey ranges with asymmetrically placed gables to form picturesque elevations to harbour and Fore Street. Entrance with dressed freestone tower of 3 stages with turret. Memorial plaque above entrance eroded but lists benefactors, architect and date. Left-hand projecting wing overlooking harbour originally single storey with triple lancets. Elevation to Fore Street with projecting gable on left and gable near centre of elevation. Interior with pitch pine panelling and doors and doorcases retained, some reset. Decorative roof structures with principals pierced with quatrefoils. Contemporary railings to front on Fore Street with 2 pairs of freestone gate-piers, square in plan, rising to octagons with moulded copings. Important elevations to harbour and Fore Street.

Listing NGR: SW9964080893

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Legacy System number:: 351396
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.