Education Offices (Former Grammar School)
EDUCATION OFFICES (FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL), GEORGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322035
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Education Offices (Former Grammar School)
- Statutory Address:
- EDUCATION OFFICES (FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL), GEORGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322035
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Education Offices (Former Grammar School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDUCATION OFFICES (FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL), GEORGE 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:
- EDUCATION OFFICES (FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL), GEORGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5461955730
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX5455NE GEORGE LANE, Plympton St Maurice
740-1/50/517 (East side)
23/04/52 Education Offices (former Grammar
School)
GV II*
Grammar school, now education offices. 1664. Coursed
polychrome rubble with granite dressings; steep slate roofs
with coped gable ends with kneelers and finials.
PLAN: overall T-shaped plan with an arcaded front range with
schoolroom to 1st floor and schoolmaster's house in cross wing
at right angles to rear centre. There is a later lean-to in
the rear right-hand angle.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-bay arcade of 2-centred arches on
Tuscan columns; relieving arches; 2 similar bays to left-hand
return, and mid-floor string. 4 large transomed mullioned
windows to 1st floor of front and 2 similar windows at rear
left and right of wing. At either end is a 2-centred arched
6-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Wing is 3 storeys
with upper floor mostly in roof space: 2 x 3-light and 2 x
2-light mullioned windows to W elevation; 3-light window to
1st floor of E elevation and altered window to 2nd floor.
INTERIOR: moulded round-arched doorway from rear of loggia
into wing and former list description notes: C20 staircase in
wing and heavy moulded door frame with carved stops to 1st
floor.
HISTORY: Joshua Reynolds was a pupil at this school and his
father was a master.
This is a magnificent example of a large building of this type
and date completed in Perpendicular Gothic Survival style with
some Classical influence affecting proportions and spacing of
openings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
684).
Listing NGR: SX5461955730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 684
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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