Bolventer School and Walls to Front
BOLVENTER SCHOOL AND WALLS TO FRONT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328083
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bolventer School and Walls to Front
- Statutory Address:
- BOLVENTER SCHOOL AND WALLS TO FRONT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328083
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bolventer School and Walls to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLVENTER SCHOOL AND WALLS TO FRONT
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:
- BOLVENTER SCHOOL AND WALLS TO FRONT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Altarnun
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1845276760
Details
ALTARNUN BOLVENTOR
SX 17 NE
6/86 Bolventor School and walls to front
-
II
School and walls to front. 1878 (datestone). Snecked local stone with granite
dressings, partly slate hung. Slate roof with gable ends and pierced crested ridge
tiles. Projecting snecked stone front lateral stack with stepped weathering and
octagonal shaft.
Plan: Roughly rectangular shape plan with entrance through C19 porch on right into
school room which is heated by front lateral stack. Small outshut on left hand side
of front and C19 and C20 extensions to rear. Gothic style.
Exterior: Single storey school room with steeply pitched roof and lateral stack near
centre of front elevation. Steeply pitched roof to entrance porch on front right and
catslide roof to outshut on front left. Entrance porch has asymmetricaly placed 4-
centred chamfered arch to entrance with ornate C19 wrought-iron hinges to the plank
door and a mullion and transom window to right. The gable end is ornamented with
timber studding and the deep barge boards are decorated with a central pendant
finial. The central chimney-stack is dressed with granite with a date plaque in the
centre. To left a 3-light mullion and transom window with outshut to left which has
a 4-centred arched opening for a C19 door in the right-hand side.
High stone rubble walls to front enclosing the play ground.
Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX1845276760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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