Polglase Farmhouse
POLGLASE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142121
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Polglase Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POLGLASE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142121
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Polglase Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLGLASE 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:
- POLGLASE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gweek
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7023328840
Details
SW 72 NW GWEEK
8/130 Polglase Farmhouse
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GV II
Farmhouse. C18. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Corrugated asbestos roofs :
steep roof (formerly thatched) over original house with rubble stacks over the gable
ends ; lower pitched roof over later C18 cottage on the left and bricks chimney over
the gable end. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. Original farmhouse on the right is a double-depth plan
with wider kitchen on the left and parlour on the right with cross passage between
leading to central rear stair hall with service room at either side. Circa late C18
or possibly early C19 a large 1-room plan cottage was added on the left hand side.
In the C20 this cottage was linked by a small extension to a former outbuilding (C18
or early C19) to provide a new kitchen. Large C20 conservatory at the front.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 5 window south front. Original farmhouse on the right
has nearly symmetrical 3 window front with doorway central to fenestration C20 door.
C20 copies of original 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes. Cottage front has 3
original similar windows. Large conservatory along the front.
Interior: Some remodelling in the C20 including replacement of partitions and first
floor structure. Original fireplace structures, stairs and roof structures survive.
Original kitchen/living rom fireplace has large granite domed oven to left-hand side.
Dog-leg stairs have rectangular balusters. Roof structure is close-spaced. Lapped
and pegged A trusses with battens between for thatch.
Listing NGR: SW7023328840
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66110
- 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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