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The Old School House

A Grade II Listed Building in Veryan, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.2184 / 50°13'6"N

Longitude: -4.9232 / 4°55'23"W

OS Eastings: 191556

OS Northings: 39467

OS Grid: SW915394

Mapcode National: GBR ZP.Y620

Mapcode Global: FRA 08KG.5SB

Plus Code: 9C2Q639G+9P

Entry Name: The Old School House

Listing Date: 30 May 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219564

English Heritage Legacy ID: 393622

ID on this website: 101219564

Location: Veryan, Cornwall, TR2

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Veryan

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Veryan

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SW 93 NW VERYAN VERYAN

8/145 The Old School House
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30-5-67
GV II

School for girls, now private house. Circa 1820, build by Hugh Rowe, a Lostwithiel
builder, for Reverend Jeremiah Trist. Slatestone rubble walls, polygonal hipped water
reed thatched roof with chimney over one end of ridge. Conceived as a farmhouse plan
but built with a large room to Madras plan sometimes known as Dr Bell's system.
Originally single storey, but attic converted 1884. North front overlooking village
centre is symmetrical with 3 ground floor windows in depressed and central arched
openings, once with shutters - see old photograph, and original glazing pattern of
timber 'Y' tracery in the heads with pairs of opening casements with 6 panes each
below. The centre window is in a round sided and wide projecting bay which has late
doorways piercing its flanks. The original arched entrance is at the rear. The roof
overhangs the front of the house deeply forming a verandah supported on 2 granite
columns of broadly Tuscan type with capitals and bases. A very large C20 bay window
has been cut into the roof where 2 tall dormers of 1884 existed. Interior retains
part of original plan layout. Hugh Rowe was also the builder of Veryan's 5 round
houses. Information from an article by G W Hawkridge in The Illustrated Carpenter and
Builder, September 30, 1960.


Listing NGR: SW9155639467

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