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St Michael Penkivel School Earth Closet Buildings, Boundary Wall and Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.2466 / 50°14'47"N

Longitude: -5.0064 / 5°0'22"W

OS Eastings: 185753

OS Northings: 42836

OS Grid: SW857428

Mapcode National: GBR ZJ.LG5G

Mapcode Global: FRA 08DC.WYX

Plus Code: 9C2P6XWV+JF

Entry Name: St Michael Penkivel School Earth Closet Buildings, Boundary Wall and Railings

Listing Date: 27 November 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1218921

English Heritage Legacy ID: 62887

ID on this website: 101218921

Location: St Michael Penkivel, Cornwall, TR2

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: St. Michael Penkevil

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Michael Penkevel

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER LANE

4/62 St Michael Penkivel School
- earth closet buildings, boundary
wall and railings
GV II

School, 2 earth closet buildings, boundary wall and railings. Circa 1888.
Slatestone rubble with granite dressings and Delabole slate roof with shaped ridge
tiles and gable ends. Main lateral granite stacks and granite gable stacks with
octagonal shafts to wings. Tudor style. Cruciform plan formed by 2 schoolrooms and
small room in each wing. Single storey with basement under east wing. South
entrance and road front : high central schoolroom gable end with central 3-light
granite, mullioned window with transom and original wooden sashes with glazing bars
and original tilting vents; granite hoodmould; cruciform ventilator and projecting
verge and eaves. Granite coped plinth throughout. Left gable with entrance for
girls left and boys right. Ground slopes down to right, providing space for low
basement with flat-headed doorway. Wings are identical above this level with arched
doorway in angle and adjoining arch headed 3-light mullions with original wooden
sashes 4 panes each and slit ventilators over. Open, central, octagonal bellcote
with moulded eaves under ogee shaped lead roof surmounted by weather vane.
Interior has moulded arch braced roof structure with moulded purlins.
Contemporary girls and boys detached rubble and granite earth closet buildings with
steep pitched Delabole slate roofs. Boys closet has urinal wing.
Original rubble boundary walls with granite dressings and contemporary iron railings
and gates to south side. School, earth closet buildings and boundary walls to south
all form a group.


Listing NGR: SW8575342836

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