The Post Office Farmhouse
THE POST OFFICE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141648
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141648
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE 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:
- THE POST OFFICE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 77382 43930
Details
SW 74 SE KEA HUGUS
1/150 The Post Office Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse with cottage and adjoining farm building, now 1 house. C18. Painted killas rubble and cob, slate sills, segmental brick arches to ground floor openings and timber lintels to first floor. Steep asbestos slate roof over house, formerly thatched, with brick chimneys over rubble breasts to gable ends. Roof continues over later farm building right (east) at same pitch. Later C18 cottage, left, has lower pitched corrugated asbestos roof at lower pitch, formerly scantle slate, and with brick chimney over rubble gable end left. Plan originally of 2-room farmhouse with central passage with rear stair turret behind left-hand room, now partly enclosed by large C19 lean-to. Later C18 barn added to right-hand (west) end with roof sweeping lower to rear over angled projection with rounded end wall. Finally extended to left-hand end (west) by single-cell cottage with stair turret or fuel store projection to rear left. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window south front of original farmhouse flanked by regular 1-window front of cottage, left, and barn front, right, with small ventilation window to first floor and C20 extensions to ground floor. Farmhouse has central doorway with open fronted scantle roofed gable ended porch with unpierced rubble side walls. Similar porch to front right of cottage. All 4-pane horned sashes except 6-paned ones to ground floor of farmhouse. Interior not inspected but said to be little altered. A late example of houses with stair turret projections and rare survival of unaltered circa late C18 early C19 open-fronted porches.
Listing NGR: SW7738243930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63434
- 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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