Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder
BARN AND WHIM HOUSE NORTH OF CHYVOUNDER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141609
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND WHIM HOUSE NORTH OF CHYVOUNDER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141609
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Whim House North of Chyvounder
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND WHIM HOUSE NORTH OF CHYVOUNDER
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:
- BARN AND WHIM HOUSE NORTH OF CHYVOUNDER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mylor
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8136136446
Details
SW 83 NW MYLOR RESTRONGUET BARTON
4/261 Barn and whim house north of
Chyvounder
GV II
Barn and whim house with machinery. Circa early-mid C19 . Shale rubble and some cob
walls with granite quoins to barn and granite posts to whim house. Corrugated iron
roofs with weather boarded gable ends (probably scantle slate originally with hips).
Rectangular single-cell barn with opposing doorways at south west end side on
slightly higher ground, and polygonal whim house, with open sides and solid end,
attached to south east side on right.
Single storey. Whim house has open sides with 2 granite posts at each side.
Interior mostly original roof structures and complete, mostly wooden, threshing
machinery to whim house and in barn. The whim is of the overhead shaft system and
has central round post, round wooden cog wheel braced to post, and original wooden
yoke originally operated by 2 pairs of oxen or horses. The word HANDEROLLANS is
painted on one of the wheel spokes. In the barn, linked by round overhead drive
shaft, is round wooden threshing drum.
The barn is attached on the left to a single-storey rubble and cob shippon which is
in turn adjoining a C17 house (now used as farm building) with hearth at each end
(one with 2 ovens) and 2 original 2-light, internally ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned
windows, one with surviving diagonally set bars and rebating for leaded glazing.
The whim house and barn contain some of the most complete C19 animal powered
threshing machinery in Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW8136136446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63539
- 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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