Place Manor
PLACE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141010
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Place Manor
- Statutory Address:
- PLACE MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141010
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Place Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLACE MANOR
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:
- PLACE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gerrans
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8548732057
Details
AW 83 SE GERRANS
5/10 Place Manor
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GV II
Formerly part of Augustinian Priory and now country house adjoining Church of Saint
Anthony. First recorded circa 1288, present structure includes part of circa C16
wing but, mostly remodelled and extended circa 1840. Stucco over rubble walls. Dry
slate roofs with coped gable ends and brick gable chimneys. T-shaped plan adjoining
cruciform plan church. Symmetrical. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys central stair
plus attic. 9 window north front with flanking 2 window wings at lower level.
Central, open, porte cochere, entrance porch with 3 pointed arched openings and
diagonal buttresses. Room over with 3-light mullioned window. Further floor with
2-light window and hollow sprocketted pyramidal roof with gablet ventilator probably
later C19 addition. Central doorway within porch has 2 glazed doors with Gothic
detail and Gothic fanlight. All windows have arched lights and moulded hoodmoulds,
some incorporating Spry family motto: 'Soyez sage et simple'. Ground floor windows
have central mullions with turned shafts and carved capitals. String course at first
floor sill level. Four 2-light roof dormers with polygonal roofs and shaped wooden
eaves brackets. Left wing is 1 storey over basement and has central 4-light
mullioned window with transom and coped gable with ventilator over. Sill string.
Single light window, left and arched doorway with planked door right approached by
flight of steps from left. Right wing has 3-light mullioned windows to ground floor
with transomed and similar 2-light windows with gables over to first floor. Reused
C16-Cl7 segmental arched granite doorway to right.
Interior has 2 arched granite doorways in rear wing and 5 moulded and carved cross
beams surviving from circa C16. C19 Gothic detail to vestibule and stair well.
Otherwise not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW8548732057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62975
- 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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