ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146335
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS
Statutory Address:: ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146335
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROSKESTAL FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATE-PIERS

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Levan
National Grid Reference:: SW 37178 22429

Details

ST LEVAN ROSKESTAL SW 32 SE 7/205 Roskestal Farmhouse, including - front garden walls and gate-piers GV II Farmhouse, including front garden walls and gate-piers. C17, extended in the C18. Pebble-dashed front, rendered gable ends, granite rubble rear wing, granite dressings. Scantle slate roofs. Front range has C17 dressed granite chimneys with simple entablature over the gable ends. Scrolled granite kneelers at the front. Heightened eaves. Plan: L-shaped plan. 2-room plan C17 range at the front with probably parlour on the left, hall on the right with cross passage between leading to stair outshut in the rear angle and C17 or C18 service wing or granary at right angles behind the left-hand side with granite steps up to its loft. Remains of wall at rear right of the wing suggest a formerly enclosed rear courtyard. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south east front with central doorway. C17 chamfered doorway and C17 chamfered 3-light mullioned window on the left. Other openings have circa late C19 or C20 horned sashes. Left-hand gable end has two C17 chamfered window openings. Rear wing has reused chamfered stones to right-hand wall. The other original openings are constructed of unchamfered granite monoliths. There is a chamfered doorway through high courtyard wall behind the right-hand rear corner of the house. There is some reused C17 masonry in the farm buildings at Roskestal. Low cement coped granite rubble walls surround rectangle garden at the front of the house. The gateway (aligned with doorway of house) has round-headed granite monolithic piers. Interior: has possibly late C18 stair, otherwise C19 and C20 carpentry and joinery. Possibly there are earlier features not visible.

Listing NGR: SW3717822429

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Legacy System number:: 69755
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.