Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, including courtyard walls at front

Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, Turnpike Hill, Marazion, TR17 0BZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327566
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, including courtyard walls at front
Statutory Address:: Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, Turnpike Hill, Marazion, TR17 0BZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327566
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:: Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, including courtyard walls at front
Statutory Address 1:: Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, Turnpike Hill, Marazion, TR17 0BZ

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:: Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, Turnpike Hill, Marazion, TR17 0BZ

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Marazion
National Grid Reference:: SW 52155 30710

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/05/2020

SW 5230-5330 5/13

MARAZION TURNPIKE HILL Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, including courtyard walls at front

(Formerly listed as Chy-an-Scol and Old Schoolhouse, including courtyard walls at front, FORE STREET)

GV II

School with schoolhouse, now two houses. Built in 1861 for Sir Christopher Cole's widow to provide education for the poor boys of the parish. Dressed granite brought to course with dressed granite steps, quoins, doorways and windows. Dry Delabole slate roofs with granite coped gable ends and dressed granite chimneys; chimneys over left hand gable and front gable, right, have octagonal shafts; large chimney over party wall and another chimney at rear, right. Tudor style.

Plan: T-shaped plan overall comprising single storey schoolroom left with entrance porch in front of left hand side and cross wing of schoolhouse, right, with chambers mostly in the roof space, schoolhouse entrance lobby right.

Exterior : Overall asymmetrical 1:2:1-bay south road front: stonework of doorways and windows painted; plinth; chamfered depressed two-centred arched doorways with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, original doors; shouldered headed lights to the chamfered mullioned windows. Two-light windows to schoolroom between gable ended porch left and projecting gable end of schoolhouse, right; three-light window left of schoolhouse gable, doorway right; four-light window to middle of gable, both windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. The gable window has wide central mullion containing flue. Over this window is an inscribed plaque to John Cole and a similar plaque in the porch gable has the Strangways (Earl of Ilchester) coat of arms.

Interior not inspected but schoolhouse is said to be very little altered but the schoolroom is subdivided for use as a house.

Low forecourt area walls of dressed granite brought to course at the front with three-sided dressed granite copings and in front of each doorway is a flight of granite steps.

Listing NGR: SW5215530710

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Legacy System number:: 69917
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.