Newquay Golf Club

NEWQUAY GOLF CLUB, TOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144111
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Newquay Golf Club
Statutory Address:
NEWQUAY GOLF CLUB, TOWER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144111
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Newquay Golf Club
Statutory Address 1:
NEWQUAY GOLF CLUB, TOWER ROAD

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEWQUAY GOLF CLUB, TOWER ROAD

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newquay
National Grid Reference:
SW 80468 61880

Details

NEWQUAY TOWER ROAD, Newquay SW 8061-8161 16/141 Newquay Golf Club - II

House, now golf club. 1835, with C20 alterations and additions. Probably stone rubble, stuccoed. Roof behind parapet. Plan: Circular 3-storey tower, with single storey wing to right, which may originally have been the chapel. There is a block set back to left, with a stair turret set in the angle to right. Exterior: The tower has an embattled parapet, 3-storey, with integral stair turret; 3-light window at each storey, with round porch with panelled door to front. The single storey wing to right has two cusped lancets and C20 window to left. The block to left is 2-storey, with embattled parapet; 2 single windows at ground floor and one at first floor, with hood moulds; the left side has door and window at ground floor and 3 windows at first floor. Later C19 wing to rear left with hipped roof, of 2 storeys, with 2 windows at ground and first floor, all with hood moulds and C20 glazing. The rear has C20 additions. There is an oval-shaped stack to the right side of the tower, and a rectangular stack to rear of the block to left. Interior: Retains a newel stair leading from ground floor to basement inside the central tower, with cast iron balustrade. The tower was formerly the Molesworth family house; they were one of the leading Roman Catholic families of Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW8046861880

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
71145
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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