Trevessa Farmhouse
TREVESSA FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137004
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trevessa Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TREVESSA FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137004
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trevessa Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREVESSA FARMHOUSE
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:
- TREVESSA FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Newlyn East
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 86749 55541
Details
ST NEWLYN EAST SW 85 NE 2/12 Trevessa farmhouse
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Farmhouse, early C18 and mid C19 probably for Capt Botallick. Stone, slate hung, and scantle slate roof. Plan: Earlier build remains at east end, remainder demolished for large 2-storey block with through hall. 2 rooms deep and gable stacks, probably when adapted for mine captain's house for local silver-lead mines. Central entrance converted to 16-pane sash window, and other windows to both floors all 16-pane sashes. Brick stacks. Earlier end has casement windows and hipped roof. Stair window on gable end 4 panes wide with intersecting glazing bars. Lean-to along rear, whitewashed, containing garage and service rooms. John Trevisa, 1340 - 1402, scholar under patronage of Lord Thomas Berkeley, was born here. His works include 'de Regimine Principum', 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' and 'Polychronicon', and is said to have worked with Langland on Piers the Ploughman.
(c/f Eric Gethyn Jones, 'Trevisa of Berkeley', Alan Sutton (1978) and forthcoming work by Professor David Fowler of Seattle)
Listing NGR: SW8674955541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, E G, Trevisa of Berkeley, (1978)
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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