Borlase Burgess Farmhouse
BORLASE BURGESS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146422
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Borlase Burgess Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BORLASE BURGESS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146422
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Borlase Burgess Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BORLASE BURGESS FARMHOUSE
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:
- BORLASE BURGESS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Wenn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 94688 66252
Details
ST WENN SW 96 NW 2/336 Borlase Burgess Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. C18; sundial dated 1738; extended and remodelled circa mid C19 with few later alterations. Granite rubble with brick dressings. Asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts. The C19 addition has a slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends; gable end stack to right with brick shaft. Plan: 2-room plan with central entrance to passage; each room heated from a gable end stack. In circa mid C19, an addition of one-room plan was added at the right end, heated from a gable end stack to right; this addition has an integral outshut, and probably at about the same time a lean-to was added at the left end. Exterior: 2 storeys, the C18 building has a symmetrical 3-window front. First floor has three C19 4-pane sashes in original openings with cambered brick arches. Ground floor has central C19 panelled and glazed door, with C19 4-pane sash to left and 6- pane sash to right, all with cambered brick arches. At first floor level to left is a slate sundial with nowy head and gnomon, dated 1738. There is a straight masonry joint at right to the addition of C19, which is also 2-storey; this has a C19 16-pane sash at ground floor and 6-pane sash at first floor, both with cambered brick arches. The right end has an external stack. The left end has single storey lean-to. Interior: Not inspected, but may retain some features of the C18, such as panelled doors.
Listing NGR: SW9468866252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71324
- 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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