Bolventer School And Walls To Front

ALTARNUN BOLVENTOR SX 17 NE 6/86 Bolventor School and walls to front - II

School and walls to front. 1878 (datestone). Snecked local stone with granite dressings, partly slate hung. Slate roof with gable ends and pierced crested ridge tiles. Projecting snecked stone front lateral stack with stepped weathering and octagonal shaft. Plan: Roughly rectangular shape plan with entrance through C19 porch on right into school room which is heated by front lateral stack. Small outshut on left hand side of front and C19 and C20 extensions to rear. Gothic style. Exterior: Single storey school room with steeply pitched roof and lateral stack near centre of front elevation. Steeply pitched roof to entrance porch on front right and catslide roof to outshut on front left. Entrance porch has asymmetricaly placed 4- centred chamfered arch to entrance with ornate C19 wrought-iron hinges to the plank door and a mullion and transom window to right. The gable end is ornamented with timber studding and the deep barge boards are decorated with a central pendant finial. The central chimney-stack is dressed with granite with a date plaque in the centre. To left a 3-light mullion and transom window with outshut to left which has a 4-centred arched opening for a C19 door in the right-hand side. High stone rubble walls to front enclosing the play ground. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX1845276760