Old School House and Quay Walls Including Quay/Yard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. A C19 Former school, house.
Old School House and Quay Walls Including Quay/Yard Walls
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-tin-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Former school, house
- Address
- Old School House and Quay Walls Including Quay/Yard Walls, Mawnan
- OS grid reference
- SW 773 272
- Coordinates
- 50.10389, -5.11563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, dating from 1876, has been converted into a house and is accompanied by quay walls, which likely date back to the 18th century. The building is constructed from roughly coursed faced Killas with granite dressings. The quay walls consist of vertically set Killas rubble topped with horizontally-coursed Killas rubble. The roof is made of dry Delabole slate, featuring fish scale courses and slates on the projecting verges. There is an external stone lateral stack on the rear wall.
The structure has a rectangular schoolroom layout with a projecting gabled bay at the front left, a gabled porch at the rear right, and an earth closet with a lean-to store at the rear on the right-hand side. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic style. The southeast front has a one-and-a-half bay layout, featuring a projecting gable-ended bay with a chamfered three-light mullioned window on the left and a two-light mullioned window on the right. Each gable end has a central four-light mullioned window, and the rear wall includes similar three-light and two-light windows. The porch has a two-light window in its rear wall and a chamfered doorway on its side wall.
The school is situated on a quay that serves as its playground, with the quay having walls on three sides topped with square-edged granite copings. This school replaced an older school located at Glendurgan, Durgan, which was built for Alfred Fox and his wife Sara.
Local climate
Old School House and Quay Walls Including Quay/Yard Walls receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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