Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls
LOWER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE, REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144331
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE, REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144331
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE, REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND FRONT 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:
- LOWER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE, REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Zennor
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 43100 37189
Details
ZENNOR SW 43 NW 3/245 Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, rear - courtyard walls and front garden walls GV II Farmhouse, rear courtyard walls and front garden walls. Circa 1800. Granite ashlar front, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Slurried scantle slate roof at front and over rear wing, corrugated asbestos over rear. Brick chimneys over the gable ends. External stones lateral stack at left of rear wing. Plan: 2 room plan with larger kitchen left and parlour right, cross passage between leading to stair; 2 storey 1-room plan dairy with apple loft at right angles to rear left, and lean-to at rear right. The apple loft is approached by an external flight of steps adjoining at high rear courtyard walls. Another outbuilding adjoining right-hand side. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-east front the windows and doorway disposed towards the right, with doorway central to fenestration. Slightly wider ground floor openings. C20 door with overlight. Circa late C19 horned sashes. Interior: fairly complete and unaltered, original stairs, floor partitions; features include chimney-piece with dentilled cornice (first floor right-hand room) with circa late C19 horseshoe grate. The rectangular front garden is enclosed by a granite moorstone wall with monolithic gate piers. The rear left hand wing is built over a wall of coursed masonry which extends north-west and forms the lower boundary of the farmyard. Part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet set in the ancient field system of this part of Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW4310037189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70581
- 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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