Chacewater Literary Institute
CHACEWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1328964
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address:
- CHACEWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1328964
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHACEWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE, FORE STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHACEWATER LITERARY INSTITUTE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacewater
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 75031 44422
Details
CHACEWATER FORE STREET (north side) Chacewater SW 74 SE 5/189 Chacewater Literary Institute 22.7.85 GV II Literary institute and wall to front. 1893. Designed by W.J. Wills for John Passmore Edwards (donor). Dressed rock-faced granite, brought to course, with dressed granite quoins, sills, string, copings, jambstones, mullions and arches. Gable-ended dry Delabole slate roofs with alternate arcaded clay ridge tiles. Plan of 2 main rooms flanking central passage with right-hand (east) room projecting farther to rear. 2 further contemporary small linked rooms to rear of left-hand room and axial passage. Each room has separate roof with ridge at right angles to street except for central roof which is parallel to street and linked to roof of principal room at either side. Single storey. Symmetrical 2-window south street front with slightly recessed central doorway flanked by identical tall gable ends. 3 granite steps to keyed round-headed doorway with pilaster jambs. Original pair of 3-panel doors and coloured leaded panes to fanlight. Nowy-headed building name plaque over forming parapet surmounted by scrolled plaque with donor's initials and scrolled pediment with finial, and date within tympanum. Raised numerals and letters. Each flanking gable end has plinth, impost string, gable copings and pedestals with finials over kneeler and ridge acroteria. Central blind quatrefoil over each window. Tripartite windows with stepped round-headed lights and moulded hoods. Coloured leaded glass to tympana with central quatrefoil design. Foundation stone, laid by donor, to left of doorway. Interior is little altered. Arched bracing to roof is carried on granite corbels. Low granite-coped wall with central to front. Chacewater Literary Institute is the second of 4 institutes in Cornwall donated by Passmore Edwards. A strong late Victorian architectural statement in a street with many good C19 buildings.
Listing NGR: SW7503144422
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 63165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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