Description

SW 84 SW KEA

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

II

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433604

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2