Boskennal Farmhouse, Including Adjoining Outbuildings and Rear Garden Walls
BOSKENNAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND REAR GARDEN WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143930
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Boskennal Farmhouse, Including Adjoining Outbuildings and Rear Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BOSKENNAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND REAR GARDEN WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143930
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Boskennal Farmhouse, Including Adjoining Outbuildings and Rear Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOSKENNAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND REAR GARDEN WALLS
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:
- BOSKENNAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND REAR GARDEN WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 41242 25025
Details
ST BURYAN SW 42 NW 5/38 Boskennal Farmhouse, including - adjoining outbuildings and rear garden walls II Farmhouse, including adjoining outbuildings and garden walls. C18 remodelled from earlier house, remodelled again circa late C18 or early C19 and extended circa mid C19. Dressed granite front, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate and scantle slate roofs. Brick chimneys over the gable ends. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan plus service wing in front of the left-hand side. The house has 2 parlours at the front flanking a wide entrance hall leading to a large stair hall with a C18 stair; right of the stair is a dairy which projects farther to the rear and adjoins a granary running parallel to the rear of house; on the left of the stair is a back kitchen and on its left is a circa mid-servants' hall or kitchen with servants' chambers over. In front of the kitchen wing is a large single-storey service wing, probably a dairy. the granary has granite steps up to a doorway in the left-hand north east end. The rear dairy has very thick, probably C17 walls. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window house front with central doorway and narrow window over doorway. Plinth, flat arches with projecting keystones. Circa late C18 or early C19 4-panel door and hornless sashes of the same date with glazing bars. Rear has circa early and mid C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars. The rear of the kitchen wing is a 3-window front. Stair hall has brick wall between 2 stone walls with granite quoins. Interior: Unaltered interior since the C19 with many interesting features including; C18 open-well staircase with moulded closed string and column-turned balusters; C18 2-panel doors to first floor rooms of house; circa mid-C19 panelled doors to ground floor rooms; circa mid C19 plaster ceiling cornices to both parlours and a mid-C19 cast-iron horseshoe grate to the left-hand front chamber.
Listing NGR: SW4124225025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69596
- 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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