Penwarden
PENWARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140819
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Penwarden
- Statutory Address:
- PENWARDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140819
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Penwarden
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENWARDEN
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:
- PENWARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3265469999
Details
SOUTH HILL
SX 37 SW and SX 36 NW
2 & 7/230 Penwarden
GV II
House now empty. Datestone 1662. Stone rubble with large granite quoins. Scantle
slate roof with gable end. Shallow projecting wing with gable end. Large stone
rubble stack with moulded cap and slate strings on left-hand gable end. 2 brick
chimney shafts on front projecting wing and in right-hand gable. L-shaped plan with
dairy in angle beneath continued sloped of rear wing.
Probably a 3 room and through passage plan with parlour wing at rear of higher end
and with later lean-to in the angle enclosing passage rear doorway. Short wide wing
added at front of higher end and hall. Lower room possibly kitchen heated by gable
end stack. Hall stack probably truncated and hall heated by stack in gable end of
front wing. Inner room combined to make enlarged hall.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical, 5-window front. Gabled wing projects slightly forward on
right. Ground floor with 3-light granite mullion window on left with chamfered
jambs, lintel cill and hoodmould. Angle entrance in angle with projecting wing. 3-
centred granite chamfered arch with run-out stops. Rectangular hoodmould. Datestone
1662 spandrels. Possibly original door, double planked and studded with strap
hinges. To right, 3-light mullion window with chamfered surround. First floor, with
3 late C19 2-light casements. Gable end of projecting wing possibly rebuilt. 2
large early C20 2-light casements in gable end beneath granite lintels. Rear wing
probably an addition and the stone mullion windows reused from the front wall. In
gable end of rear projecting wing, 4-light granite mullion window with wide central
chamfered king mullion. Narrow, 3-light casements with iron stanchion bars in
openings. Hoodmould. Above, 3-light granite mullion window, asymmetrically placed in
gable end. Ovolo-moulded jambs. Dripmould with label stops. Right-hand slope of
gable continued in catslide over circa mid C19 extension. On right-hand gable end of
rear elevation, wall with banded masonry. Plank door. 2-storey barn projects
forwards from wall. Stone rubble with corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends.
Interior; Room on right of front elevation with fielded panels below dado. Recessed
circa mid C18 cupboard with round arched head and semi-circular shaped shelves.
Thorough access not permitted at time of survey, and interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX3265469999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61441
- 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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