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Godolphin Club

A Grade II Listed Building in Helston, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1017 / 50°6'6"N

Longitude: -5.2733 / 5°16'23"W

OS Eastings: 166021

OS Northings: 27535

OS Grid: SW660275

Mapcode National: GBR Z1.0PW2

Mapcode Global: VH133.KP3W

Plus Code: 9C2P4P2G+MM

Entry Name: Godolphin Club

Listing Date: 24 March 1950

Last Amended: 9 February 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1297644

English Heritage Legacy ID: 385595

ID on this website: 101297644

Location: Helston, Cornwall, TR13

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Helston

Built-Up Area: Helston

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Helston

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



HELSTON

SW6527 WENDRON STREET
631-1/5/245 (North West side)
24/03/50 Godolphin Club
(Formerly Listed as:
WENDRON STREET
(North West side)
Old Grammar School)

GV II

Grammar school and public rooms. Grammar school 1834. By
George Wightwick. Public building 1888-89.
Grammar school front is granite ashlar with shaped gabled
parapet, the other front is dressed blue stone with granite
plinth, windows doorway and moulded string, corbelled
freestone 1st-floor buttresses rising through tall coped
gabled parapet entablature with shorter intermediate
buttresses, all with finials; very steep dry slate front roof;
asbestos slate at rear; grouted scantle slate T-plan roof to
grammar school; school adjoining at rear right.
Gothic-style 2-storey elevations; symmetrical 1:1:1-bay street
front, transomed mullioned windows: tall 2-light 1st-floor
window with trefoil-headed top-lights and casements with
glazing bars. Ground floor has 3-light windows flanking
central moulded doorway with corbelled round-arched head;
blind Y-traceried fanlight over pair of boarded panelled doors
with 4 leaded glazed trefoils.
Right-hand return has 1st-floor window similar to front
windows to projecting bay on the left; other 4 bays with 4
first-floor openings: 2 tall transomed wooden windows on the
left and 2 lights above grammar school on the right; iron fire
escape staircase to doorway between.
Grammar school has symmetrical 3-bay canted front with central
trefoil-headed louvred vent to finialed gable with flanking
parapets over 2-light moulded wooden window with square
granite hoodmould and leaded lights, over heavily moulded
doorway with 4-centred arched head and coat of arms above
original pair of studded doors. Flanking bays have slit
windows to each floor. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be
of interest.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890; Kelly's Directory of Devonshire
and Cornwall: 1902-1902: 131).


Listing NGR: SW6602127535

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