Rosemorran House and Front Garden Walls
ROSEMORRAN HOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136807
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Rosemorran House and Front Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ROSEMORRAN HOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136807
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Rosemorran House and Front Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSEMORRAN HOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
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:
- ROSEMORRAN HOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Madron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 47607 32513
Details
MADRON SW 43 SE 7/106 Rosemorran House and front garden - walls 10.6.54 GV II* House/cottage ornee and front garden walls. Circa late C18 or late C18 remodelling and extension as cottage ornee. Painted rubble walls, some granite dressings, some rendered cob. Wheat-reed thatched roof (said to be the longest thatched roof in Cornwall) with brick chimneys over the gable ends and over the cross walls. Scantle slate over part of rear outshuts, some corrugated asbestos. Plan: long range of 5 rooms. Central entrance with porch. Second room from left is full height and originally had a plaster barrel ceiling. Cottage ornee with Gothic style features. Probably C19 outshuts at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys except for 3rd bay. Overall slightly irregular 7-window south front. Mostly C19 sashes with glazing bars or 2-light casements. First floor windows are dormered with arched heads. Sash right of main doorway has pointed lights. Window in third bay from left is pointed-arched and is full height. Porch has arched doorway, lancet windows and scrolled kneelers to coped gable. Interior: C18 features include: eared chimneypiece; some 2-panel doors; a plaster barrel ceiling in the chamber right of the entrance and a Chinoiserie door in the right-hand chamber. High rubble walls at either side of the garden. On the left the wall has granite coping and crow-steps where it returns at the front.
Listing NGR: SW4760732513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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