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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

External Links

• Wikidata Q26585206

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