Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137144
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Essa
- Statutory Address:
- ESSA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137144
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Essa
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESSA
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:
- ESSA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lanteglos
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1363951179
Details
SX 15 SW LANTEGLOS-BY-FOWEY
8/55 Essa
-
- II
Farmhouse, circa late C17 or early C18. C20 extension to rear. Whitewashed
rubble stone with slate roof. Large projecting stone stack on left hand gable end
with brick stack in right hand hipped end.
Originally 2 rooms with cross passage. 2 storeys asymmetrical 2 window front.
Ground floor with two 2-light casements, the left hand window with glazing bars.
Central door with rendered C20 porch. Above two 2-light casements, the right hand
one with glazing bars.
Single storey store on left hand gable end, rubble stone with slate roof and 2
double doors.
Interior not inspected.
In C13 the Manor of Polruan, otherwise Esse or Ussa, belonged to the Daubeny
family. However by the end of the C14 the Manor had been divided up and linked with
the Manor of Lanteglos.
N A Ackland and R M Druce, Lanteglos-by-Fowey with Polruan and Bodinnick, 1978.
C Henderson and H Coates Old Cornish Bridges and Streams 1928 rp.1972.
Listing NGR: SX1363951179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ackland, , Druce, , Lanteglos by Fowey with Polruan and Bodinnick The Story of a Parish, (1978)
Henderson, C, Coates, H, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, (1928)
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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