Chequettes Hall
CHEQUETTES HALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136343
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chequettes Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUETTES HALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136343
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chequettes Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEQUETTES HALL, CHURCH STREET
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:
- CHEQUETTES HALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Callington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 35893 69671
Details
SX 36 NE CALLINGTON CHURCH STREET (west side),
8/20 Chequettes Hall
GV II
House, now retail premises. Circa 1719. Staircase projection added circa 1730s. Rear wing probably added in late C18 reusing earlier stonework and extended in 1860s when south side was remodelled. Shop front added in 1959. Front of granite ashlar , partly obscured by glazed shop front. Side and rear walls of rubblestone with granite dressings. Partly slate hung to rear of staircase projection on the west. South front of rear projecting wing of granite ashlar. Slate roof with hipped ends. Originally 2 room with cross passage which was extended by addition of rear staircase wing. Service rooms added to rear in further projecting single depth wing on north west. Wing extended under catslide roof towards south. 3 storey range; symmetrical 5 window east front with rusticated granite corner pilasters and plain granite strings. Ground floor with C20 projecting glazed shop front with flat roof. Cut stone flat arches to original openings remaining. Openings widened by amalgamating windows flanking central entrance. First floor, five 12-pane sashes without horns beneath cut stone arches with keystones. Second floor, five 9-pane sashes (top 3- panels) without horns. Moulded and modillioned wooden eaves cornice. Right-hand side with second floor sash window of 9-panes (top 3-panes) with heavy C18 glazing bars. Left-hand side with late C19 canted bay window. Above on first and second floor, 2 light casements with pointed heads. 2 staircase windows to projecting wing. Rear projecting 2 storey wing with slate and asbestos slate roof with gabled end to east and hipped to west. Granite south front with pointed headed windows to ground floor and projecting single storey porch. Reused greenstone 2-centred arch with moulded jambs. Further projecting wings to rear, circa late C19. Interior Ground floor of main range, right-hand side with remains of dentilled cornice and two C18 cupboards. On left, ribbed plasterwork remodelled circa 1880s, contemporary with addition of bay window. Original stair, circa 1730s with elegant wreathed handrail, slightly moulded and ramped at corners. Turned balusters on square bases. Open string with carved scroll brackets. Full dado rail with pilasters surviving. Moulded cornices. Second floor, main range with remains of dado rail and fielded panelling in window bays. Possibly on site of manor of Callington (Chicketts Hall). Horndon family held lease of Chequettes Hall from 1720s until William Horndon built Pencrebar (qv) in 1848-49. N Pevsner and E Radcliffe Buildings of England. Cornwall. Second edition, 1970 S Lightbody The Book of Callington 1982
Listing NGR: SX3589669673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
Lightbody, S, The Book of Callington, (1982)
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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