Higher Colenso Old Farmhouse
HIGHER COLENSO OLD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143740
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Colenso Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER COLENSO OLD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143740
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Colenso Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER COLENSO OLD 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:
- HIGHER COLENSO OLD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Hilary
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 56538 30202
Details
ST HILARY SW 53 SE 2/126 Higher Colenso Old Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. C18 remodelling of an older house. Painted rubble walls. Slurried scantle slate roof (formerly thatched) brick chimneys over the gable end and over thick rubble stack of the back kitchen (rear left). Plan: gable ends survive from possibly pre-C18 plan. In the C18 : 2 rooms at the front with cross passage between and outshut behind the right hand room with stair at the rear of the passage within the outshut and approached from the outshut. Circa late C18 or early C19 another similar outshut was added behind the left hand room to provide a back kitchen. Exterior : 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south front with central doorway. C19 6-panel door and 4-pane horned sashes. Interior is virtually unaltered since the C18: original floors carried on bowtell- moulded beams, original softwood muntin and plank partitions and 2 panel doors. Large fireplace possibly with blocked oven and with copper on the right in back kitchen. Roof structure circa late C19 when slate replaced thatch and the pitch was reduced.
Listing NGR: SW5653830202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70030
- 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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