Bolventer School and Walls to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. A 19th century School.
Bolventer School and Walls to Front
- WRENN ID
- open-courtyard-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Bolventer School and Walls to Front, Altarnun
- OS grid reference
- SX 184 767
- Coordinates
- 50.56231, -4.56471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bolventor School, built in 1878, features snecked local stone with granite dressings and some slate hanging. The school has a slate roof with gable ends and pierced crested ridge tiles. A prominent lateral stack made of snecked stone is located at the front, with stepped weathering and an octagonal shaft.
The building has a roughly rectangular plan, with an entrance through a 19th-century porch on the right leading into the school room, which is heated by the front lateral stack. There is a small outshut on the left side and 19th and 20th-century extensions at the rear. The school is designed in a Gothic style.
The exterior consists of a single-storey school room with a steeply pitched roof and a lateral stack near the center of the front elevation. The entrance porch, located on the front right, also has a steeply pitched roof and features an asymmetrically placed 4-centred chamfered arch entrance with ornate 19th-century wrought-iron hinges on the plank door, along with a mullion and transom window to the right. The gable end is decorated with timber studding and deep barge boards that have a central pendant finial. The central chimney stack is dressed with granite and includes a date plaque. To the left, there is a 3-light mullion and transom window, with the outshut to the left featuring a 4-centred arched opening for a 19th-century door on the right side. High stone rubble walls enclose the playground in front of the school. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bolventer School and Walls to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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