Description

SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

4/143 The Old Schoolhouse
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GV II

Schoolmaster's house with school. Datestone 1888. Granite rubble with dressed
granite quoins, doorways, windows, kneelers and copings. Steep dry Delabole slate
roof with coped gables. Dressed granite chimneys, external at left hand schoolhouse
gable and axial over wall between schoolhouse and school.
L-shaped plan with double depth 2 rooms wide 2 storey schoolhouse left and large
single storey schoolroom as cross wing on the right projecting farther at the rear.
All under the same eaves line, the schoolhouse 1st floor rooms partly in the roof
space. The entrance and stair hall of the schoolhouse is slightly left of middle of
the entrance front, one room on the left, possibly study, and 2 reception rooms
behind. The stair rises up through the middle of the schoolhouse entrance front.
Tudor baronial style.
Irregular gabled entrance front: schoolhouse with 2 first floor gabled dormer
windows, left, and large gable end of schoolroom, right. The schoolhouse has
slightly irregualr disposition of windows; 2-light mullioned window, left; 4-centred
arched moulded doorway towards the right with datestone over. The other windows are
single light, one adjoining the right hand jamb of the doorway and a midfloor stair
window central to the whole schoolhouse front. The schoolroom gable has a 4-light
transommed mullioned window with a square hoodmould. Relieving arch and slit
ventilator over. The other elevations have windows in similar style. Over the
middle of the schoolroom front is a gabled bellcote.
Interior not inspected.
This building is the same date (1888) as Trenoweth House qv., the former vicarage,
and is probably by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SW6452834487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613686

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback