Westcott Farmhouse on South Side of Settlement at Westcott

WESTCOTT FARMHOUSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SETTLEMENT AT WESTCOTT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142892
Date first listed:
11-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:
Westcott Farmhouse on South Side of Settlement at Westcott
Statutory Address:
WESTCOTT FARMHOUSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SETTLEMENT AT WESTCOTT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142892
Date first listed:
11-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:
Westcott Farmhouse on South Side of Settlement at Westcott
Statutory Address 1:
WESTCOTT FARMHOUSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SETTLEMENT AT WESTCOTT

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WESTCOTT FARMHOUSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SETTLEMENT AT WESTCOTT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tremaine
National Grid Reference:
SX 23110 89140

Details

TREMAINE WESTCOTT SX 28 NW 7/182 Westcott Farmhouse on south side - of settlement at Westcott

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa late C16. Rendered stone rubble and cob, partly rebuilt in brick on left hand gable end. Rag slate roof with gable ends. Brick shaft to end stack on left and brick shaft to axial stack, left of centre. Plan: Probably originally of three room and cross or through passage plan with higher end on right. Entrance to left of centre with service room on lower, left hand side of passage and hall on higher, right hand side, heated by an axial stack, backing onto the passage. Inner room on far right probably unheated. Stair turret projection to rear of passage and lower side of hall; the stair rose from rear wall of hall, close to the fireplace. In circa C18 or early C19 an outshut extension was added to the rear of the passage and lower end, incorporating the stair projection. Gable end wall of lower end rebuilt in early C20. In the C19 or C20 the house was divided into two cottages with a second entrance close to the partition between the hall and inner room and in the later C20, the two cottages reverted back to a house, the original entrance being blocked and the partition between the inner room and hall removed. Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with renewed C20 2-light casements. Entrance to right of centre with C20 porch. Three casements to left of entrance, the central casement in the original entrance and casement to right of entrance. Three casements on first floor. Interior: Hall fireplace with cavetto moulded granite lintel and jambs with pentan to rear and remains of cloam oven. Slight chamfered floor joists to hall. Inner room unheated and fireplace to lower end rebuilt when the end wall collapsed in circa early C20. C19 stair in earlier stair turret. Roof structure above hall and inner room replaced, probably in C19. Roof structure above lower end not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2311089140

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Legacy System number:
68076
Legacy System:
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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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