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Bolventer School and Walls to Front

A Grade II Listed Building in Altarnun, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5623 / 50°33'44"N

Longitude: -4.5647 / 4°33'52"W

OS Eastings: 218452

OS Northings: 76760

OS Grid: SX184767

Mapcode National: GBR N9.FWWY

Mapcode Global: FRA 17BL.1HM

Plus Code: 9C2QHC6P+W4

Entry Name: Bolventer School and Walls to Front

Listing Date: 23 November 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1328083

English Heritage Legacy ID: 68304

ID on this website: 101328083

Location: Bolventor, Cornwall, PL15

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Altarnun

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Altarnon with Bolventor

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


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

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