Penpont Mill

PENPONT MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1158335
Date first listed:
23-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Penpont Mill
Statutory Address:
PENPONT MILL
House with 3 windows on ground and first floor, rendered white with porched door and blue picket fence.
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1158335
Date first listed:
23-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Penpont Mill
Statutory Address 1:
PENPONT MILL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PENPONT MILL

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Altarnun
National Grid Reference:
SX 22389 81213

Details

ALTARNUN ALTARNUN SX 28 SW 4/76 Penpont Mill - GV II

House. Probably C17. Rendered and painted stone rubble. Rag slate roof with half hipped end on left and gable end on right. Brick shaft to axial stack to left of centre and brick shaft to end stack on right. Plan: 3 room and cross or through passage plan with entrance to right of centre. Room on right hand side heated by end stack. Room on left of passage heated by axial stack and inner room beyond to left unheated. Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front. C20 door to right of centre flanked by two 2-light casements with C19 6-pane sash and C20 door to far left. First floor has C19 6-pane sash and two C19 12-pane sashes. Interior: Not inspected. Birthplace of Nevil Northey Burnard, sculptor (1818-1878), qv Chygrysys.

Listing NGR: SX2239081213

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Legacy System number:
68294
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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