Gwills Farmhouse
GWILLS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141761
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gwills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GWILLS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141761
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gwills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GWILLS 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:
- GWILLS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gunwalloe
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 67527 20928
Details
SW 62 SE GUNWALLOE
3/34 Gwills Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. Circa late C18. Serpentine rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones and lintels with wooden lintels over first floor windows. Asbestos slate roof with brick chimneys over gable ends. Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with later kitchen added in C19 behind right-hand room. Large front reception rooms flanking central passage leading to stair hall partly behind left-hand room. Pantries behind left-hand room and right-hand room, the right-hand one probably converted from the original kitchen in the C19 and has passage at sides and rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window east south-east front. Central wide doorway with 4- panel doorway approached by 2 granite steps, with 4-panel door with flush beads to bottom panels and overlight. 2-light window over and 3-light windows in wide openings to ground and first floor left and right. All windows are original horizontal sliding sashes with 6 panes per light and much original glass. Rear is also very unaltered since the C19: Interior is little altered and retains most of its original carpentry and joinery including open-well closed-string stair with rectangular balusters; 6-panel doors to ground floor and 2-panel doors to first floor. Attached within the jambs of the doorway at rear right into the courtyard are 2 similar carved and painted wooden male figures with smiling faces, said to have been salvaged from a ship. This is an unusually complete circa late C18 farmhouse unaltered since the C19 on all sides and with all its original fenestration.
Listing NGR: SW6752720928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65193
- 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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