Pendavey Farmhouse
PENDAVEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143054
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pendavey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PENDAVEY FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-01-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/03298/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143054
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pendavey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENDAVEY 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:
- PENDAVEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egloshayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0066671234
Details
EGLOSHAYLE
sx 07 SW
4/31 Pendavey Farmhouse
II
House, now farmhouse. Circa early to mid C18, part remodelled in late C18. Ashlar
stalestone and stone rubble. Asbestos slate roofs with hipped ends to front range
and to rear wing. Brick shaft to rear lateral stack on left and brick axial stack
between front and rear right hand wing. Brick end stack to rear right hand wing.
Plan: Original plan uncertain. The house is built across a slope with the ground
sloping down in front of the house and house has a cellar below the front range.
Front range of single depth 2-room plan witha wide central entrance hall, stair in
projection to rear and 2 reception rooms heated by rear lateral stacks. The rear
right hand wing may possibly be an addition of the later C18 comprising a one-room
plan, originally the kitchen, heated by aback-to-back fireplace shared with the front
right hand room. In circa early C19 a further room was added to the rear wing
comprising a large kitchen heated by an end stack. Circa mid C19 extension of 1 room
plan added to rear of left hand room and further extended with a dairy in the late
C19 to early C20.
Exterior: 2-storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 5-window front with dressed slate and
slatestone flat arches with keyblocks to window openings. Central panelled door with
blind fanlight and broken pediment above. Timber cased piers. 2 horned 12-pane
sashes to right and left and five 3-over 6-pane sashes on the first floor, the fouth
sash probably early C19. Round headed late C18 or early C19 stair window to rear.
Interior: Largely complete with late C18 and early to mid C19 joinery and carpentry.
Wide entrance hall with early C19 plaster cornice and late C18 to early C19 stair
with open string, stick baulusters, turned newels and moulded and wreathed rail.
Moulded cornice in left hand room and simpler cornice in right hand room, both with
C20 chimney-pieces. Gun rack above C19 mantleshelf to earlier kitchen.
Domesday manor site. Polsue states that the Priors of Bodmin had a chapel at
Pendavey. In 1669 the manor, mansion house and barton passed ot the Moyle family.
Maclean, Sir John Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the
County of Cornwall. 1876
Polsue, J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 1876
reprinted 1974.
Listing NGR: SX0066671234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67665
- 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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