Former School, Including Yard Walls Gate Piers And Gates

ST AGNES MOUNT HAWKE SW 74 NW 7/180 Former School, including yard walls - gate-piers and gates GV II

Board school, including yard walls, gate-piers and gates. Datestone 1874. Killas rubble with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof with gable-ended wings at the front. Rubble and brick lateral stacks, one over rear wall, one over each of the left-hand walls of the wings. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan. Principal schoolroom in main range; large classroom in each of the wings which project in front from either end. Principal entrance porch in the left-hand angle leading to entrance lobby. Another porch in the other angle. Gothic style features. Small C20 extension between the porch. Exterior: Single storey. Unaltered elevations except for small C20 porch and C20 extension between the porches which partly obscures principal central hall window opening with gable over. 4-centred arched doorway into gable-ended porch in left- hand angle. 2-light transomed window to front of other lean-to porch. Gable ends of classroom wing projecting in front at left and right. Each gable end has central 3- light traceried granite mullioned window with hoodmould. Windows to other elevations are original wooden 3-light windows with transoms. Rubble coped rubble walls on 4 sides of school playground. Central part of front wall has wide gateway with rectangular-on-plan gate-piers flanked by low walls. Round-headed granite monolithic gate-piers; dressed granite copings over the low walls; C20 concrete screen replacing railings above. Probably original wrought-iron gates with looped bars. Interior not inspected

Listing NGR: SW7166547548