Polapit Tamar
POLAPIT TAMAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142846
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Polapit Tamar
- Statutory Address:
- POLAPIT TAMAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142846
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Polapit Tamar
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLAPIT TAMAR
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:
- POLAPIT TAMAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Werrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3326789306
Details
WERRINGTON
SX 38 NW
9/276 Polapit Tamar
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GV II
Large house. 1866 extended in 1901-3 by Robert P. Whellock for R.C. Coode. Snecked
local stone with granite dressings. Slate roofs with gable and hipped ends. Brick
moulded axial and end stacks.
Plan: Complicated plan with service rooms to rear right facing yard and reception
rooms on garden front. Early C20 extension on left comprising ballroom with chambers
above.
Exterior: Garden front partly remodelled in early C20 with early C20 extension on
left. The earlier range to right has a symmetrical 3-window front, the central bay
set forward with a Flemish gabled end. Round arched opening on ground floor with
oriel window above. Flanked by C19 sashes with margin glazing bars on ground and
first floor. Set back on right is a lower range with a 5-window front; canted bay
window to left of centre with shallow projecting bay to right. 12-pane sashes on
ground and first floor with glazed verandah across front. Set back to left is a late
C19 conservatory. To the left, the extension designed by Whellock has a symmetrical
3-window front, the centre advanced with wide segmental pediment and a modillion
cornice; central entrance. The entrance loggia to front has paired Ionic columns and
above in centre and to right and left are Venetian-style windows and battlemented
parapets to the canted side walls. The attic rooms are roofed with 2 round cupolas
flanking a taller square cupola, all with very tall finials with ball tops which
produce an unusual skyline.
The rear elevation to the yard has a 2-storey canted entrance. The round-headed door
arch with the arms of the Coode family above. The curved wall of the stair tower in
angle to left.
Interior: The ballroom is panelled in oak and has ornately carved chimney-pieces,
the overmantle of one of the chimney-pieces carved with a view of Launceston. Much
of the house has been divided into flats and the interiors were not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX3326789306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68165
- 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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