The Old Schoolhouse

SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

4/143 The Old Schoolhouse -

GV II

Schoolmaster's house with school. Datestone 1888. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, doorways, windows, kneelers and copings. Steep dry Delabole slate roof with coped gables. Dressed granite chimneys, external at left hand schoolhouse gable and axial over wall between schoolhouse and school. L-shaped plan with double depth 2 rooms wide 2 storey schoolhouse left and large single storey schoolroom as cross wing on the right projecting farther at the rear. All under the same eaves line, the schoolhouse 1st floor rooms partly in the roof space. The entrance and stair hall of the schoolhouse is slightly left of middle of the entrance front, one room on the left, possibly study, and 2 reception rooms behind. The stair rises up through the middle of the schoolhouse entrance front. Tudor baronial style. Irregular gabled entrance front: schoolhouse with 2 first floor gabled dormer windows, left, and large gable end of schoolroom, right. The schoolhouse has slightly irregualr disposition of windows; 2-light mullioned window, left; 4-centred arched moulded doorway towards the right with datestone over. The other windows are single light, one adjoining the right hand jamb of the doorway and a midfloor stair window central to the whole schoolhouse front. The schoolroom gable has a 4-light transommed mullioned window with a square hoodmould. Relieving arch and slit ventilator over. The other elevations have windows in similar style. Over the middle of the schoolroom front is a gabled bellcote. Interior not inspected. This building is the same date (1888) as Trenoweth House qv., the former vicarage, and is probably by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SW6452834487