Truro High School (Office Building)

Truro High School, an office building for an Anglican school for girls, was constructed in 1896 by E R Robson. The building is made of dressed blue/grey stone with granite dressings and features dry Delabole slate roofs with crow-stepped gables and irregularly placed stone stacks. It has a large irregular plan and is designed in a baronial style, consisting of two storeys, except for the tower, which has three storeys over a basement. The windows are mullioned with casements or chamfered openings that include horned sashes. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet supported by a cornice with brackets that resemble machicolations. The east entrance front features gable ends on the left and middle, with taller mullioned windows on the first floor. The doorway, located towards the right, has a shallow porch with a round-arched hood supported by corbels and a pair of panelled doors. The tower on the right includes a bowed oriel on its left side (above the basement) and a projecting three-storey bay on the right, also supported by corbels similar to the roof parapet. The interior has not been inspected. The school was built with funds raised by the school community, largely thanks to the efforts and inspiration of Miss Clare Arnold (later Mrs C H Robinson), who was headmistress from 1888 to 1896.