Darras Farmhouse
DARRAS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142825
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Darras Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DARRAS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142825
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Darras Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARRAS 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:
- DARRAS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Altarnun
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2067980728
Details
ALTARNUN
SX 28 SW
4/4 Darras Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse and attached shippon. Probably C17 origins extended in later C17, in C18
and in C19. Granite rubble walls with rag slate roofs, gable end on left and hipped
end on right. Stone rubble axial stacks.
Plan: The house is built down the slope with the ground rising to left. Original
plan uncertain. The house probably had a 2-room and cross or through passage plan,
the 2 rooms heated by end stacks with a stair turret to the rear of the right-hand
room. In the circa later C17 the house was extended with a further (narrow) 1-room
plan range heated by an end stack on the lower right-hand side. In the circa C18 the
house was extended on the higher left-hand end with a shippon. In the circa late C19
the house was extended on the lower right hand end by a 1-room plan service range.
Exterior: 2 storeys. The ground slopes down to right and rises steeply to the left
so that the shippon which is attached on the higher left-hand side, has a continuous
roof line with the adjoining farmhouse on right. The service range on far right has
a slightly lower roof. Asymmetrical 3-window front. The farmhouse has a lean-to
stone rubble porch flanked by two probably C20 2-light casements with two similar
casements on first floor. To right, in the circa later C17 extension are probably
C20 2-light casements on the ground and first floor with a stone rubble buttress
between the two ranges. There is a lean-to porch to far right. The shippon which is
attached on the higher left hand side is of single storey with a C19 stable-type door
to right and one-light window to left.
The rear elevation is unaltered and has a stair projection to the rear of the right
hand room of the earlier range.
Interior: Not accessible.
Listing NGR: SX2067980728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68223
- 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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