Treworder Farmhouse
TREWORDER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140887
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Treworder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TREWORDER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140887
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Treworder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREWORDER 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:
- TREWORDER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7899746580
Details
KENWYN
SW 74 NE
2/179
- Treworder Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C18 remodelling of earlier house and further remodelled in the
C19. Painted killas rubble with wooden lintels and slate sills. Scantle slate roofs
with gable ends large stone stacks with brick shafts to gable ends left and right,
external to left and external lateral stack to north east wall of rear wing at right
angles. Further brick axial chimney over single-storey range to right.
Plan of original house now difficult to work out but remodelled circa early C18 as
2-room house with central passage leading to central rear stair turret plus kitchen
wing to rear right. Narrow service room added under 2-storey outshut to rear of
left-hand room in the C19. Earlier room survives at higher level in single storey
building to right (north east) and incorporates earlier stone fragments.
2 storeys. Originally symmetrical 5-window south east front, but in the C19, first
floor windows 2 and 4 blocked and ground floor window completely blocked and pier of
masonry between windows removed to make window openings.
Central doorway. C20 door and windows. Single-storey 2-window part to right has
doorway to left of each room C20 and windows. Right-hand doorway is circa early C20
stable type ledged and braced. Chamfered stone reused as jambstone to right and
stone with concentric ring carving further to right. Left-hand doorway has C20 lean-
to porch. Rear is little altered since the C19.
Interior was much remodelled in the C19 but retains original dog-leg stair with C19
balustrade and fielded dado panelling in left-hand front room with original ceiling
level over. Hearths partly blocked except large slightly splayed fireplace in left-
hand room of single-storey part with chamfered grown oak lintel over. Circa late C19
roof structure.
Treworder was the home of Richard Lobb, High Sheriff of Cornwall (1651-2), Justice of
the Peace, and Captain of Militia for West Cornwall. He was an influential Puritan
and became involved in the New England Corporation, founded by Edward Winslow who
sailed in the Mayflower in 1620. In 1665 Richard Lobb issued a token farthing of
which no known examples survive. Source: The Story of Flushing, Cornwall by Ursula
Redwood.
Listing NGR: SW7899746580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Redwood, U, The Story of Flushing Cornwall, ()
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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