Description

CHACEWATER FORE STREET (north side) Chacewater
SW 74 SE
5/189 Chacewater Literary Institute
22.7.85
GV II
Literary institute and wall to front. 1893. Designed by W.J. Wills for John
Passmore Edwards (donor). Dressed rock-faced granite, brought to course, with
dressed granite quoins, sills, string, copings, jambstones, mullions and arches.
Gable-ended dry Delabole slate roofs with alternate arcaded clay ridge tiles.
Plan of 2 main rooms flanking central passage with right-hand (east) room projecting
farther to rear. 2 further contemporary small linked rooms to rear of left-hand room
and axial passage. Each room has separate roof with ridge at right angles to street
except for central roof which is parallel to street and linked to roof of principal
room at either side.
Single storey. Symmetrical 2-window south street front with slightly recessed
central doorway flanked by identical tall gable ends. 3 granite steps to keyed
round-headed doorway with pilaster jambs. Original pair of 3-panel doors and
coloured leaded panes to fanlight. Nowy-headed building name plaque over forming
parapet surmounted by scrolled plaque with donor's initials and scrolled pediment
with finial, and date within tympanum. Raised numerals and letters. Each flanking
gable end has plinth, impost string, gable copings and pedestals with finials over
kneeler and ridge acroteria. Central blind quatrefoil over each window. Tripartite
windows with stepped round-headed lights and moulded hoods. Coloured leaded glass to
tympana with central quatrefoil design. Foundation stone, laid by donor, to left of
doorway.
Interior is little altered. Arched bracing to roof is carried on granite corbels.
Low granite-coped wall with central to front.
Chacewater Literary Institute is the second of 4 institutes in Cornwall donated by
Passmore Edwards.
A strong late Victorian architectural statement in a street with many good C19
buildings.

Listing NGR: SW7503144422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614269

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)