Chapel Farmhouse, Outbuilding Adjoining at North and Walls Adjoining at West and East

CHAPEL FARMHOUSE, OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT NORTH AND WALLS ADJOINING AT WEST AND EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141782
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Chapel Farmhouse, Outbuilding Adjoining at North and Walls Adjoining at West and East
Statutory Address:
CHAPEL FARMHOUSE, OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT NORTH AND WALLS ADJOINING AT WEST AND EAST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141782
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Chapel Farmhouse, Outbuilding Adjoining at North and Walls Adjoining at West and East
Statutory Address 1:
CHAPEL FARMHOUSE, OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT NORTH AND WALLS ADJOINING AT WEST AND EAST

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHAPEL FARMHOUSE, OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT NORTH AND WALLS ADJOINING AT WEST AND EAST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Morwenstow
National Grid Reference:
SS 23028 14849

Details

SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW SHOP

3/116 Chapel Farmhouse, outbuilding
- adjoining at north and walls
adjoining at west and east
GV II

Farmhouse, outbuilding adjoining at north and walls to the west and east. Formerly
1 property with Chapel House. Circa. 1860s. Stone rubble with polychromatic stone
and brick dressings, slate roofs. 1 projecting stone stack with tumbled brick
shaft, others brick shafts on ridges. Asymmetrical plan of 2 connected ranges
forming L plan round inner courtyard, courtyard entered through 2 centred archway
in wall to east. Further wall projecting to west of front has similar archway.
Free Gothic vernacular style with deep hipped roofs and good polychromatic
detailing. Asymmetrical 2-window front with roof hipped at left end, right end
adjoins Chapel House. Front left slightly advanced under separate hipped roof.
Long C20 porch under sloping slate roof. Ground floor window left 2-light casement
under segmental recess below segmental arch. Casement has 6 panes per light, upper
lights canted to give Gothic appearance. First floor window left 3-light casement,
6 panes per light with similar treatment to upper panes. First floor window right
is a large gabled dormer with a similar 2-light casement in pointed arch recess
with blind tympanum. Decorative brickwork to gable. Projecting from front left a
tall stone wall with brick archway with keystone. Wall has stone and brick
capping. Similar wall with archway leading into inner courtyard to east has 3
courses of brick capping. Single-storey outbuilding with gabled end adjoining at
north forms part of inner courtyard wall. Interior not inspected.
Chapel Farm was formerly the service rooms and stables to Chapel House where the
Reverend R S Hawker, poet, antiquary and vicar of Morwenstow, met his second wife.


Listing NGR: SS2302814849

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
64921
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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