Description

SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER LANE

4/62 St Michael Penkivel School
- earth closet buildings, boundary
wall and railings
GV II

School, 2 earth closet buildings, boundary wall and railings. Circa 1888.
Slatestone rubble with granite dressings and Delabole slate roof with shaped ridge
tiles and gable ends. Main lateral granite stacks and granite gable stacks with
octagonal shafts to wings. Tudor style. Cruciform plan formed by 2 schoolrooms and
small room in each wing. Single storey with basement under east wing. South
entrance and road front : high central schoolroom gable end with central 3-light
granite, mullioned window with transom and original wooden sashes with glazing bars
and original tilting vents; granite hoodmould; cruciform ventilator and projecting
verge and eaves. Granite coped plinth throughout. Left gable with entrance for
girls left and boys right. Ground slopes down to right, providing space for low
basement with flat-headed doorway. Wings are identical above this level with arched
doorway in angle and adjoining arch headed 3-light mullions with original wooden
sashes 4 panes each and slit ventilators over. Open, central, octagonal bellcote
with moulded eaves under ogee shaped lead roof surmounted by weather vane.
Interior has moulded arch braced roof structure with moulded purlins.
Contemporary girls and boys detached rubble and granite earth closet buildings with
steep pitched Delabole slate roofs. Boys closet has urinal wing.
Original rubble boundary walls with granite dressings and contemporary iron railings
and gates to south side. School, earth closet buildings and boundary walls to south
all form a group.

Listing NGR: SW8575342836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513505

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