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Listed building outline: Collaton St Mary School 383766

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Collaton St Mary School 383766

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.601030 50.430578,-3.601163 50.430468,-3.600974...
• entry-date: 1993-10-25
• listed-building: 1195093
• name: Collaton St Mary School
• notes: School. c1866, probably designed by JW Rowell of Newton Abbot, who also designed the parish church (qv), some C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Local red snecked breccia; slate roof; stacks with red breccia shafts , 2 retaining stone caps; crested ridge tiles. PLAN: T-plan, the main block containing two classrooms, heated from gable end stacks, with one original entrance; heated rear wing with a L roof plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a gabled projecting porch with a round headed shouldered outer doorway and a blind trefoil carved in the gable. 2 windows to the right, one to the left, 3- and 4-light with stone mullions and shoulder-headed lights. Probably C20 secondary door inserted to right of porch. The rear wing also preserves 2 original windows in the same style as those on the front. C20 additions at west end and in north east corner. INTERIOR: Plain, the original open roof trusses survive, partly concealed by an inserted ceiling. HISTORY: The school is part of a group of buildings promoted by the Reverend John Roughton Hogg, who had the church built by Rowell in 1867 to commemorate his daughter, Mary Hogg. It was a church school until 1930 when it became a junior school and was granted aided status in 1952 (Bovett). (Buildings of England: Cherry B and Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 838; Bovett, Robert: Historical Notes on Devon Schools: Devon: 1989-: P.244). Listing NGR: SX8635160198
• reference: 383766
• start-date: 1993-10-25