Penwyn House
PENWYN HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144010
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penwyn House
- Statutory Address:
- PENWYN HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144010
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penwyn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENWYN HOUSE, FORE STREET
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:
- PENWYN HOUSE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grampound with Creed
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 93522 48314
Details
GRAMPOUND FORE STREET (South side), Grampound SW 9248-9348 WITH CREED 7/66 Penwyn House - GV II
House. Early C19, with alterations and additions of the later C19 and few later alterations. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings. Asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts. Deep bracketed eaves. Gable end stack with brick shaft to the rear service wing. Plan: 2-room plan, with central entrance and principal room to front right and left, each heated from a gable end stack. Integral service wing on one-room plan to rear left, heated from a gable end stack. Probably of the later C19, a rear wing was added to right. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3 window front. Central C19 6-panelled door with overlight and C19 doorcase with pilasters and dentil cornice. Large C19 16-pane sash to right and left with cambered brick arches. First floor has three C19 16-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. Right end blind. There is a straight joint in the masonry to right to the 2-storey rear wing, with 2-light 4-pane C19 casement at ground floor, first floor has C19 20-pane sash with cambered brick arch. There is a lower 2-storey wing to end right. The left end is blind. Lean-to with C19 half- glazed door and 2-light casement to the loft over. The inner side of the rear wing has 20-pane sash with cambered brick arch at first floor; rest of the building not accessible at time of survey (September 1987). Interior: Not inspected, but may retain good features of the early C19.
Listing NGR: SW9352248314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71408
- 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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