The Bickford Smith Institute And Attached Wall

HELSTON

SW6225 INSTITUTE HILL, Porthleven 631-1/6/258 The Bickford Smith Institute and 18/03/91 attached wall

GV II

Institute including library and clock tower. 1883-4. Coursed and dressed granite; stone-coped Welsh slate roof; stone end stacks. L-plan with clock tower to south-west angle. 2 storeys. 3-window first-floor range to Institute Hill. Horned 4/4-pane narrow sashes set in 2-light square-headed ground-floor windows with chamfered jambs; first floor has horned 2/2-pane sash with chamfered jambs flanked by gabled half dormers with horned 3/3-pane sash. Elevation to Cliff Road has similar narrow sashes in similar 2-light windows flanking full-height canted bay window with similar sashes; porch to right end wall with plank door and moulded kneelers to lean-to roof. 3-stage clock tower has hoodmould over chamfered pointed-arched doorway and Caernarvon-arched window to battered lower stage; middle stage has tall paired lancets; upper stage, housing clocks to each face, is corbelled out and has crenellated parapet; spire clad in sheet copper (1991). INTERIOR: plain with panelled doors. Subsidiary features: wall curves round from clock tower to front Institute Hill elevation.

Listing NGR: SW6283225500