Description

ST LEVAN BOTTOMS
SW 32 SE
7/185 St Levan County Primary School,
- including walls, railings and
pump base in front
GV II
Former National school. Datestone 1849 on pump base. Coursed granite rubble and
rusticated granite dressing. Asbestos slate roofs with projecting eaves and
bracketted gable ends.
Plan: Central schoolroom with entrance hall on its right; 2 flanking cross wings for
classrooms and open fronted shelter sheds in front of entrance lobbies at either end.
Exterior: Single storey unaltered 2:1:2:1:1 north east front with principal doorway
on the right of the middle bays. 2-bay front of schoolroom is flanked by taller
cross wings, broken forward, and terminated by two 2-bay open-fronted loggias in
front of the lobbies which are set back and have doorways near the angles. Old
ledged doors. Possibly original moulded transomed 2-light window.
Interior not inspected.
High retaining wall in front is surmounted by possibly original cross-braced iron
railings and aligned with the principal doorway of the school is a dished vertically-
set stone (for former pump) dated 1849.

Listing NGR: SW3853424200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612895

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living