Kea County Primary School And Playground Walls To West And South

SW 84 SW KEA

2/98 Kea County Primary School and playground walls to west and south

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Board school, including playground walls. 1879. Shale rubble with granite plinth coping, buttress quoins, sills, jambstones, mullions, lintels, arch stones and gable copings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with projecting eaves and coped gables to entrance front. Original axial tapered brick chimney over middle of rear wall of right-hand (south) schoolroom and midway to right-hand end of left-hand (north) schoolroom. 2 later brick chimneys over front walls towards left and towards front of gable end, left. T-shaped plan of schoolrooms at right angles to each other plus entrance porch outshut to left (north) leading to lobby at foot of T. Simple Tudor style. Single storey. Plinth and weathered buttresses between windows and to corners. West entrance front has 2-stage plinth lean-to porch, left, symmetrical 3-window schoolroom, and projecting gable of cross wing of other schoolroom, right. All windows have chamfered mullions. Porch has 3-light window and pointed doorway to right (south) side wall. Adjoining schoolroom has 4-light window to middle and flanking 3-light windows. Gable end, right has tall 4-light window with 2 transoms and trefoil-headed slightly recessed date plaque over. Smaller 2-light window at opposite (east) end. Symmetrical south front has taller central 3-light window, with low and high transoms, and rising to dormered roof gable, flanked by 2-light windows. Interior has pointed arched doorway between schoolrooms, and original roof structure hidden by C20 ceilings. Playground wall to west is rubble with roughly dressed granite copings and square, coursed roughly dressed granite with similar copings to south. A simple but strong and functional design little altered since built.

Listing NGR: SW8173742512