Trefrew and Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Front

TREFREW AND GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO FRONT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1143558
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Trefrew and Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Front
Statutory Address:
TREFREW AND GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1143558
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Trefrew and Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Front
Statutory Address 1:
TREFREW AND GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO FRONT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
TREFREW AND GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO FRONT

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Camelford
National Grid Reference:
SX 10864 84635

Details

CAMELFORD TREFREW SX 18 SW 5/81 Trefrew and garden walls and gate- - piers to front GV II

House and garden walls and gatepiers to front. Circa date C16 or early C17, possibly with C15 origins. Stone rubble with granite quoins. Rag slate roof with gable ends with parallel roof with gable ends to rear. Stone rubble axial, originally end stack to right and rear lateral stack to left. Projecting end stack of stone rubble with brick shaft to right of rear range. Plan : Original plan uncertain. The entrance has a circa C15 granite arch and there are several pieces of cut stone of possibly C15 in yard. Additionally the front wall is very thick. However, the house appears to have a circa late C16 or early C17 2- room and through passage arrangement, the left hand room heated by a rear lateral stack and the right hand larger, probably hall kitchen heated by an end stack. In circa C18 or early C19 a rear outshot was added across the rear elevation and a lean- to outshot added on the right hand gable end, previously heated by an end stack, now removed. In circa mid C20 the lean-to outshot was raised to 2-storeys. The circa early C17 doorframe to rear of this outshot has probably been reset. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 4 window front with renewed 6-pane sashes on ground floor and 4-pane sashes on first. Entrance to left of centre with 4-centred granite arch with roll mould and carved spandrels. Interior : Slate flag floors with suspended timber floor to left hand room. Wide passage flanked by lath and plaster partitions and circa C19 stair inserted to rear of passage. Left hand room heated by rear lateral stack with C20 tiled granite and fireplace altered in larger right hand room with circa C17 chamfered granite lintel and left hand jamb and right hand jamb replaced. Probably reset granite entrance to rear of extension on right ; circa early C17 with chamfered lintel and jambs with pyramid stops. Roof replaced in circa late C19. Stone rubble garden walls to front with gate piers of stone rubble and dressed granite, square on plan. The house remains unaltered. There are several pieces of dressed granite and greenstone including a one-light greenstone window in the yard.

Listing NGR: SX1086484635

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
68524
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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