Education Offices (Former Grammar School)

PLYMOUTH

SX5455NE GEORGE LANE, Plympton St Maurice 740-1/50/517 (East side) 23/04/52 Education Offices (former Grammar School)

GV II*

Grammar school, now education offices. 1664. Coursed polychrome rubble with granite dressings; steep slate roofs with coped gable ends with kneelers and finials. PLAN: overall T-shaped plan with an arcaded front range with schoolroom to 1st floor and schoolmaster's house in cross wing at right angles to rear centre. There is a later lean-to in the rear right-hand angle. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-bay arcade of 2-centred arches on Tuscan columns; relieving arches; 2 similar bays to left-hand return, and mid-floor string. 4 large transomed mullioned windows to 1st floor of front and 2 similar windows at rear left and right of wing. At either end is a 2-centred arched 6-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Wing is 3 storeys with upper floor mostly in roof space: 2 x 3-light and 2 x 2-light mullioned windows to W elevation; 3-light window to 1st floor of E elevation and altered window to 2nd floor. INTERIOR: moulded round-arched doorway from rear of loggia into wing and former list description notes: C20 staircase in wing and heavy moulded door frame with carved stops to 1st floor. HISTORY: Joshua Reynolds was a pupil at this school and his father was a master. This is a magnificent example of a large building of this type and date completed in Perpendicular Gothic Survival style with some Classical influence affecting proportions and spacing of openings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 684).

Listing NGR: SX5461955730