Lower Tresmorn
Lower Tresmorn, St Gennys
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142439
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tresmorn
- Statutory Address:
- Lower Tresmorn, St Gennys
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142439
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tresmorn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lower Tresmorn, St Gennys
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:
- Lower Tresmorn, St Gennys
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Gennys
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 15973 97719
Details
SX 19 NE
5/33
ST GENNYS
Lower Tresmorn
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 core with C17 alterations and late C19/early C20 addition. Rendered slatestone rubble with slate roof. Early core one room deep with through passage plan dividing hall from kitchen. Blocked fireplace and truncated stack to rear wall with stairs in turret to right. Projecting right gable end. Stack and cloam oven to kitchen. Circa late C17 remodelling with rear outshut and massive lateral stack to front wall. C20 extension to outshut at right angles to main range.
Late C19/early C20 two storey, two bay hipped roof addition to left of main range and taller than it by half a storey. Early range two storey, three windows wide with projecting lateral stack shouldered on right hand side and partly behind slate-roofed, enclosed, off-centre porch. Windows C20 renewed casements. Roof heightened circa 1920. Grooves for cross passage screen on large roll-moulded ceiling beam with bar stops. Other ceiling beams have bar stops and scratch mouldings. Massive granite fireplace to lateral stack with chamfered lintel and jambs, right-hand jamb with diamond stop. Ground floor room right entered through door with ogee lintel and incised cross. Stair turret with slatestone stairs entered through door with ogee lintel. Ground floor retains much early wall plaster. Roof inaccessible at time of survey.
Listing NGR: SX1597397719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, G M, Tresmorn, St Gennys in Cornish Archaeology, Vol. 10, (1971), 55-73
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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