Former Foundry School
FORMER FOUNDRY SCHOOL, 5, FOUNDRY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327610
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Foundry School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FOUNDRY SCHOOL, 5, FOUNDRY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327610
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Foundry School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FOUNDRY SCHOOL, 5, FOUNDRY HILL
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:
- FORMER FOUNDRY SCHOOL, 5, FOUNDRY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55732 36833
Details
HAYLE FOUNDRY HILL, Hayle SW 5436-5536 12/173 No 5 (former Foundry School) - GV II School for foundry workers children. Circa 1860. Built for Harvey and Co. Granite and killas rubble with granite dressings, slatehanging to walls of rear wing. Hipped slurried scantle slate roof with wide eaves and ventilator holes drilled into the soffits. Cast-iron ogee-secton gutters. Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. Originally probably a large rectangular schoolroom on each floor of the main part and possibly schoolteachers' accommodation in a one-room plan wing at right angles behind the right-hand side. Now used as a house and subdivided. Exterior: 2 storeys. Tall virtually symmetrical 3 window west road front with no doorway. Original 30-pane hornless sashes to ground floor except that right-hand window has shutter in place of lower sash. Originally 12-pane sashes above but the lower sashes are replaced with 2 panes. Doorway to middle of left-hand wall at basement level. Originally double 3-panel doors and 5-pane overlight. Another doorway at higher level on left is probably in position of former stair window. Interior: Not inspected. Source: Hayle Town Trial, by Brian Sullivan.
Listing NGR: SW5573236833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70190
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sullivan, B, Hayle Town Trail, ()
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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