Polstrong House
POLSTRONG HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142632
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Polstrong House
- Statutory Address:
- POLSTRONG HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142632
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Polstrong House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLSTRONG 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:
- POLSTRONG HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 62840 39815
Details
CAMBORNE
1535/7/79 POLSTRONG 12-SEP-89 Polstrong House
II House. Early, mid, and late C19. Rendered uncoursed rubble, slate roof. L- plan: double-depth range in 3 builds (proceeding from right to left), with receding wing to left end. Two storeys and 2:3:1 bays, the centre breaking forwards, and built on a low terrace with full-width balustrade; the first section has the entrance in the 2nd bay, approached by 4 steps in the terrace, with a recessed porch of 2 Doric columns in antis and a banded surround with cornice, a tall French window to the left with a floating cornice on consoles, and two 9-pane sashes above; the centre has 12-pane sashes with similar floating cornices at ground floor, and 9-pane sashes above; the 3rd section has a 9-pane sash on each floor, the lower with a banded surround to match that of the porch. Hipped roof with projecting eaves. Two-storey aisled conservatory designed by Silvanus Trevail for J.R. Daniell attached to left return wall. Interior: drawing room in left wing decorated and furnished in style little altered since late C19; otherwise, not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SW6284039816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66625
- 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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