Marazion Institute Or The Code Institute

The Marazion Institute, also known as The Code Institute, is a building dating from 1883. It was commissioned by Theophilus Code and was presented to the town in 1890 by his widow and daughters as a memorial to him. The structure is built of rockfaced granite with granite dressings and features a dry Delabole slate roof, complete with a brick chimney on the left gable end and two gabled ventilator dormers. It has cast-iron ogee gutters.

The building has a slightly irregular two-room plan, with a narrow room on the left and a wider room on the right, separated by an entrance hall that includes a stair hall at the back, which projects slightly at both the front and rear. In the Gothic style, the exterior is two storeys high and features a north front with a 1:1:2 bay arrangement, plus a splayed bay that returns around the corner on the right. The design includes a plinth, corbelled impost blocks, a mid-floor flush ashlar band, a first-floor sill string, and a coped gable with moulded kneelers.

Each bay contains two-light mullioned windows with plate glass sashes, with steep four-centred arched lights in the front bays and square-headed lights in the right-hand splayed return bay. The entrance bay, which is the second from the left, slightly projects and features a steep four-centred arch with a hoodmould over pilaster jambs. It has a pair of three-panel doors topped with a tympanum overlight. The return bay on the far right has a first-floor oriel supported by three moulded corbels, with a steep two-centred moulded arch above the window, carried on square engaged columns. The tympanum of the arch displays a coat of arms. The interior has not been inspected.