Description

SX O5 SE TYWARDREATH TYWARDREATH

868-0/16/10124 Old National School and
attached steps

GV II

National school. Probably 1840s. Local rubble with granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables. STYLE: Tudor Gothic. PLAN: 2 parallel ranges end on to the street, linked at the front by an entrance passage; wing set back on the left and an entrance porch on the right. EXTERIOR: single storey; original symmetrical 2-window front with pair of gable ends flanking an entrance bay with a 4-stage gabled bellcote tower between pair of 4-centred arched doorways set back. The doorways are moulded and have hoodmoulds; 4-light transomed mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and 4-centred arched lights; ventilators to gables. Porch at far right with shouldered doorway. Moulded wooden transomed mullioned windows to side elevations. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: broad flight of granite steps in front of pair of doorways; ramp from the left installed 1990.

Listing NGR: SX0839054389

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659766

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