Truro High School (Office Building)

TRURO

SW8244SW FALMOUTH ROAD 880-1/10/58 (West side) Truro High School (office building)

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Anglican school for girls. Built 1896. By E R Robson. Dressed blue/grey stone with granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with crow-stepped gables; irregularly disposed stone stacks. Large irregular plan. Baronial style. 2 storeys except tower which is 3 storeys over basement. Mullioned windows with casements or chamfered openings with horned sashes. Tower has an embattled parapet carried on a cornice with brackets resembling machicolations. Irregularly disposed openings. East entrance front has gable ends, left and middle, with taller mullioned windows to the 1st floor; doorway towards right has shallow porch with round-arched hood carried on corbels; pair of panelled doors. Tower (right) has bowed oriel on its left (over basement) and a projecting 3-storey bay on the right, carried on corbels (like the roof parapet). INTERIOR not inspected. History: Built with funds raised by the school (formerly at Strangways Terrace), to a great extent by the work and inspiration of Miss Clare Arnold (Mrs C H Robinson from 1896), headmistress 1888-1896. (Clarke A K: The Story of Truro High School).

Listing NGR: SW8225544134