The Square House
THE SQUARE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141712
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Square House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SQUARE HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-07-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/14599/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141712
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Square House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SQUARE HOUSE
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 SQUARE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Manaccan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 76316 24977
Details
SW 72 SE MANACCAN MANACCAN
5/100 The Square House (formerly 15.1.70 listed as Pensilua) GV II
House. Circa early C19. Painted stone rubble and rendered cob, slate sills, shallow brick arches. Half-hipped asbestos slate roof with brick chimneys over side walls. Double depth plan with kitchen/living-room left (converted into shop soon after built), parlour, right, and central cross passage between leading to central stair between unheated rear service room, left, and back kitchen right. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south-east front. Central doorway with 4-panel door, later top-glazed, and C19 trellis porch. Wide window opening left of doorway with 2 fixed lights, 16 panes per light. 4-pane sash over doorway, otherwise original 16-pane hornless sashes. Interior is little altered since the C19, with staircase which has open-well, open-string and stick balusters, panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling band in parlour. Compare circa 1900 photograph copied for N M R.
Listing NGR: SW7631624977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65263
- 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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