Description

LANDRAKE WITH ST CHURCH STREW, Landrake
SX 36 NE ERNEY

3/18 Former school about 10 metres north
east of Flagstaff

5.12.86 II

School, now used as garage/storage shed. Early C19 remodelling of earlier building,
probably originally of late C17 or early C18; few later alterations. Slatestone
rubble, cob, granite bellcote. The roof over the left end is slate, with a hip,
corrugated iron over thatch to right with gable end.
Plan: probably originally a 3-room plan, with the end left room heated by an axial
stack and the end right room with a gable end stack. The building was completely
remodelled as a school with 1 small room to the left end, with an axial stack, a
large central schoolroom with a bay brought forward as porch entrance; small room to
left end heated by a gable end stack. Gothic style.
Exterior: Single storey, asymmetrical front. The end room to left is set back and
has metamorphic stone quoins, with a single light and C20 garage doors to front,
rubble axial stack. The central schoolroom has 2 windows with a pointed arch, 2-
light casements with Y tracery, these a C20 copy of early C19 windows, with recessed
brick heads. Gabled bay to right with similar 2-light casement, bellcote over the
gable, partially removed. The right side of the bay has a 4-centred arched door with
raised studded battens. To right, an early C19 2-light casement, with Y tracery and
leaded lights, internal panelled shutters. Right end wall has stepped external stack
with chimney removed. Left end has small single storey rubble addition, partially of
C20. Rear wall mainly in cob.
Interior: The central schoolroom is ceiled. End room has fireplace with C19 cast
iron grate. End left room formerly had a rear window, fireplace on inner wall with
remains of oven; well with pump and granite trough.

Listing NGR: SX3739860409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452246

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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