St Ives Junior School England, UK

Listed Building Description

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THE STENNACK 1. ------------ 5159 St Iveg Junior School

SW 54 SW 1/301

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2. County Council Junior School, former Board School. 1878-1881 by Silvarus Trevail. Dressed granite with granite ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with bands of fish-scale slates and coursed ridge tiles with small terracotta finials over the gables. Three gable-ended parallel ranges with linking ranges at the south front. The central range is shorter and has wider gable and a porch in the angle to the right with small bell tower above with battered first stage with gablet and two light lancet louvred bell-openings and with moulded string and cornice above, originally surmounted by a slated pyramidal spire. The central gable has tripartite gothic windows with double-chamfered pointed arches with hoodmoulds and pierced blind tympana and with shouldered arch lights below in the flanking gables tripartite shouldered and lights within single pointed arch with blind tympana with small shield of the area. Similar gable on east and west side. All the gables, except the centre, have barge-boards treated as exposed trusses with braces to the collars and king-posts, and paired wooden brackets in place of kneelers. The windows on the front linking ranges and at the sides have straight heads with stopped chamfered jambs, some paired with central mullion. All sashes, without glazing bars. Continuous granite weathered cill course and plinth and small buttresses with set offs at the corners and front. Moulded granite ridge stacks with set-offs and weathered caps. The plans for the school were exhibited at the 1878 Pairs Exhibition and afterwards in the International Exhibition held in Melbourne and Sidney, Australia.

Listing NGR: SW5148740348