Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses

LOWERTON FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT PIGHOUSES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140207
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses
Statutory Address:
LOWERTON FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT PIGHOUSES

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140207
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Lowerton Farmhouse and Adjacent Pighouses
Statutory Address 1:
LOWERTON FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT PIGHOUSES

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWERTON FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT PIGHOUSES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Calstock
National Grid Reference:
SX 40928 73770

Details

CALSTOCK LATCHLEY SX 47 SW 2/120 Lowerton Farmhouse and adjacent pighouses II Farmhouse. Late C19, with C17 features re-used in a C19 outbuilding, which is adjacent to right and now used as pighouses. Slatestone rubble ; front slate-hung. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and stacks with rendered shafts to sides. Plan: Double depth plan, with principal room to front right and left, dairy to rear left and kitchen to rear right. Adjacent to front right is the small range of pighouses containing C17 features and possibly incorporating part of the wall of the early building, in slate rubble with granite dressings. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front, all C19 windows with 20-pane sashes. Central open-fronted gabled porch with outer round arch and inner 4-panelled door with overlight. Left side slate-hung, with single light to the dairy at ground floor to left. Right side a blind rubble wall. Rear was three 16-pane sashes at first floor, 16-pane sash with cambered head at ground floor to right and left. Off-centre to left a C20 rubble gabled porch. Adjacent to front right, the front wall of the pighouses has 2 re-used chamfered granite windows, blocked, 3 doors at ground floor ; single storey lean-to attached to rear. The front has an inset granite stone, carved with a primitive face, with a hood mould over. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX4092873770

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
60865
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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