Trescobel
TRESCOBEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124723
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Trescobel
- Statutory Address:
- TRESCOBEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124723
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Trescobel
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRESCOBEL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TRESCOBEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Kew
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 02282 76854
Details
SX 07 NW ST KEW ST KEW 5/221 Trescobel (previously listed as 6.6.69 Vicarage) GV II Vicarage, now private house. Circa early C19, possibly built for John-Samuel Scobell who was admitted in 1837 and died in 1849. Stone rubble, rendered probably originally plastered with left-hand side wall slate-hung. Brick end chimney stacks heating 2 front reception rooms, rear lateral brick stack heating original kitchen on left and axial brick stack heating room on rear right. Later service wing of stone rubble with slate roof with gable end and brick end stack. Double depth plan with 2 reception rooms on front, stair to rear of central hall/passage with original kitchen to left of stair and a third reception room to right of stair. Extended with mid C19 service wing to rear right of 1-room plan. 2 storeys symmetrical 3-window front with incised end pilaster strips with key motifs. Ground floor with central Doric porch with fluted columns and part-glazed double doors, inner door and windows in flanking walls fenestrated with original chinoiserie patterned glazing bars. Tall 12-pane hornless sashes on either side. First floor with three 12-pane hornless sashes with eared architraves. Rear wing with hornless sashes and crown glass. Interior complete early C19 joinery. Central entrance hall with plastered groin- vaulted ceiling of 3 bays. Front reception rooms of equal size with identical C19 marble chimney pieces with pilasters decorated with key motif identical to pilaster strips on front elevation. C19 open-well stair with open-string and ramped rail. House on site of earlier rectory marked on C18 map in Lanhydrock. Particularly complete early C19 vicarage, both internally and externally. Polsue, J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall Volume II, 1868 rp 1974.
Listing NGR: SX0228076850
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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