Basset Count House
BASSET COUNT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142615
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Basset Count House
- Statutory Address:
- BASSET COUNT HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142615
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Basset Count House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASSET COUNT 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:
- BASSET COUNT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carn Brea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 69171 40033
Details
CARN BREA CARNKIE SW 64 SE 5/126 Basset Count House
GV II Count house to former Wheal Basset copper and tin mine. Later C19; altered and extended. Uncoursed granite rubble with quoins, slurried slate roof. Rectangular plan (except for recent additions on 3 sides). Three storeys except present entrance front on south side where rising slope makes ground level at 1st floor, and the wall is mostly covered by a modern 2-storey porch etc., leaving one 12- pane sashed window on each floor at the right-hand end; the west end is similarly covered at ground and 1st floor levels, but there are two 12-pane sashes at 2nd floor, that on the right round-headed. On the north side the wall has a vertical joint with quoins to the left half, a doorway and window to the left of this, a ventilator and a tall round-headed window above, and to the right a segmental-headed 12-pane sash on each upper floor. Additions to the east end. Half-hipped roof, chimney at east end wall. Interior altered.
Listing NGR: SW6917140033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66674
- 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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