School Cottage

SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER

4/63 School Cottage

GV II

School and schoolhouse (now private house). Datestone 1842. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings and Delabole slate gable roofs and axial stack with diagonally set brick chimneys. Tudor Gothic style, T shaped on plan consisting of schoolroom and 2 schoolhouse rooms with chambers over. North east front has 2-storey, 1 window schoolhouse gable to left and 2-window single storey schoolhouse to right. Gable windows at ground and first floors are 2-light granite mullions with 8-pane timber casements. 2 windows to schoolroom right are similar but with 3 lights. Small original window to far left and between is carved free stone head with cable moulded shaft below probably C12 reset. Gable end of schoolroom has central door with worn threshold stone and narrower door to left, both with hoodmoulds. Small 4-pane window over middle door and under datestone may be in position of former architectural feature possibly bell. Original 3-light wooden casements to south west wall of schoolroom with internal iron bars. Arched recess to right may have had water pump. Interior has bread oven to schoolhouse and arched bracing to schoolroom roof.

Listing NGR: SW8622944699