Gonvena House
GONVENA HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142999
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gonvena House
- Statutory Address:
- GONVENA HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142999
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gonvena House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GONVENA 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:
- GONVENA HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadebridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9917472779
Details
WADEBRIDGE
SW 9872-9972
9/210 Gonvena House
6/6/69
GV II
House, now divided into flats. Circa 1790. Built for Edward Fox, a local merchant.
Stone rubble with Flemish bond red brick front (south-west) and right hand side
(south-east) elevation. Cement washed slate roof with hipped ends. Brick end
stacks.
Plan: Central entrance to piano nobile. Double depth plan; Entrance hall with stair
originally to rear and two main reception rooms on front right and left, heated by
end stacks. Two shallower rooms to rear. Service wing of 2 room plan to rear right,
further extended in-circa mid C19 with additional rear wing of 2 room plan beyond
forming an overall 'L' shaped plan.
Exterior: 3-storey and basement with front elevation facing south west, overlooking
the garden, originally laid out by Fox and commanding a view over Wadebridge.
Symmetrical five window front elevation in brick with dressed stone flat bands to the
string courses and chamfered quoins; rubbed brick flat arches with dressed stone key
blocks and modillion cornice. Flight of steps with cast iron balustrade upto central
entrance in piano nobile; 6 panel door with fanlight and broken pediment on consol
brackets. Original late C18 sashes with crown glass; 6-pane sashes in basement, 12-
pane sashes to ground and first floor and 3 over 6-pane sashes to second floor.
Right hand side elevation in brick with 2-windows front, a blind bay on the left and
tripartite sashes to the right. Lower 2 storey wing to rear.
Interior: Not accessible although the owner states that the stair has been removed
and partitions altered.
The house is particularly conspicuous with the two brick elevations visible from the
town centre of Wadebridge.
Maclean, Sir J Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor. 1876
Polsue, J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 1872 reprinted
1974
Listing NGR: SW9917472779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67838
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
Maclean, J, Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall, (1879)
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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