Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CLARE TERRACE
843-1/7/76 (North East side)
Clare Terrace School (Falmouth Art
School)

GV II

Girls' junior school, now part of Falmouth Art School. 1907
datestone. Dressed stone brought to course with granite
dressings for plinth coping, quoins, transomed mullioned
windows, doorways, and copings to shaped and stepped gabled
parapets fronting hips of 3 parallel dry Delabole slate hipped
roofs plus window projections to returns; arcaded bellcote
with ogee lead roof and weather-vane behind principal
entrance; one conical ventilator.
Regular overall rectangular plan with central hall/assembly
block flanked by classrooms with passages between. Jacobean
Revival style.
Symmetrical 1:1:2:1:1-bay front. Chamfered mullioned and
cross-transomed windows. Nowy-headed dormer window above
plaque set between central pair of finialled shaped gables
with flanking pilasters; quatrefoils over 4-light windows.
Porches in return angles have 3-light overlights set in
nowy-headed pediments. End bays set back, with square returns
to nowy-headed parapets over larger 3-light windows (similar
window to each end of return elevations). Original doors and
windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR not inspected.
A well-crafted example in a mannered, almost Art Nouveau,
interpretation of the Jacobean style commonly adopted for
Board schools of the period.

Listing NGR: SW8076532770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560156

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