Former Foundry School

The former Foundry School in Hayle was built around 1860 for the children of foundry workers employed by Harvey and Co. The building is constructed from granite and killas rubble, with granite dressings and slate hanging on the walls of the rear wing. It features a hipped roof made of slurried scantle slate, wide eaves, and ventilator holes drilled into the soffits, along with cast-iron ogee-section gutters.

The school has an overall L-shaped plan, which likely included a large rectangular schoolroom on each floor of the main section and possibly accommodation for schoolteachers in a one-room plan wing at right angles behind the right-hand side. It is now used as a house and has been subdivided.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a tall, nearly symmetrical three-window west road front without a doorway. The original ground floor features 30-pane hornless sash windows, although the right-hand window has a shutter in place of the lower sash. The upper floor originally had 12-pane sashes, but the lower sashes have been replaced with two panes. There is a doorway in the middle of the left-hand wall at basement level, which originally had double three-panel doors and a five-pane overlight. Another doorway at a higher level on the left is likely in the position of a former stair window. The interior has not been inspected.