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Latitude: 50.2635 / 50°15'48"N
Longitude: -5.0008 / 5°0'2"W
OS Eastings: 186229
OS Northings: 44699
OS Grid: SW862446
Mapcode National: GBR ZJ.KHMB
Mapcode Global: FRA 08DB.KL4
Plus Code: 9C2P7X7X+9M
Entry Name: School Cottage
Listing Date: 27 November 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1141060
English Heritage Legacy ID: 62884
ID on this website: 101141060
Location: Merther, Cornwall, TR2
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: St. Michael Penkevil
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Tresillian and Lamorran with Merther
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Cottage
SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER
4/63 School Cottage
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GV II
School and schoolhouse (now private house). Datestone 1842. Slatestone rubble with
granite dressings and Delabole slate gable roofs and axial stack with diagonally set
brick chimneys. Tudor Gothic style, T shaped on plan consisting of schoolroom and 2
schoolhouse rooms with chambers over. North east front has 2-storey, 1 window
schoolhouse gable to left and 2-window single storey schoolhouse to right. Gable
windows at ground and first floors are 2-light granite mullions with 8-pane timber
casements. 2 windows to schoolroom right are similar but with 3 lights. Small
original window to far left and between is carved free stone head with cable moulded
shaft below probably C12 reset. Gable end of schoolroom has central door with worn
threshold stone and narrower door to left, both with hoodmoulds. Small 4-pane
window over middle door and under datestone may be in position of former
architectural feature possibly bell. Original 3-light wooden casements to south
west wall of schoolroom with internal iron bars. Arched recess to right may have
had water pump.
Interior has bread oven to schoolhouse and arched bracing to schoolroom roof.
Listing NGR: SW8622944699
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