Old School House And Quay Walls Including Quay/Yard Walls

SW 72 NE MAWNAN DURGAN

9/202 Old School House and quay walls - including quay/yard walls

GV II

Former school, now converted to house. Datestone 1876. Base of quay walls probably C18. Roughly coursed faced Killas with granite dressings. Quay walls are vertically set Killas rubble with horizontally-coursed Killas rubble over. Dry Delabole slate roof with fish scale courses and fish scale slates to projecting verges. External stone lateral stack over rear wall. Plan: Rectangular schoolroom with projecting gabled bay at front left, gabled porch at rear right and earth closet with lean-to-store at rear adjoining at the right-hand side towards the rear. Tudor Gothic style. Exterior: l:l-bay south-east front with projecting gable-ended bay with chamfered 3- light mullioned window on the left and 2-light mullioned window on the right. Gable ends left and right each have central 4-light mullioned windows. Rear wall has similar 3-light and 2-light windows. Porch has 2-light window in its rear wall and chamfered doorway in its side wall. Interior: Not inspected. The school is built on a quay which is the school playground. The square-on-plan peninsular quay has walls on 3 sides. The walls have square-edged granite copings. This school replaced an older school at Glendurgan, Durgan, built for Alfred Fox and his wife Sara.

Listing NGR: SW7730627295