West Ruthern Farmhouse
WEST RUTHERN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158350
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Ruthern Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST RUTHERN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158350
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Ruthern Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST RUTHERN 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:
- WEST RUTHERN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Withiel
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0119666841
Details
WITHIEL
SX 06 NW
4/152 West Ruthern Farmhouse
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GV II
Farmhouse. C17 origins, enlarged and altered in C18 and C19, with some later
alterations. Slatestone and granite rubble. 2-span rag slate roof with ridge tiles
and gable ends. Gable end stacks with rubble shafts.
Plan: 2-room plan, each groom heated from a gable end stack. Probably in C18 an
unheated dairy was added to rear left, and later in the C19, an addition of one-room
plan was added to the right end, and a one-room plan addition to rear right, forming
a 2-span roof.
Exterior: The first range is 2-storey, a symmetrical 3-window front; all windows are
2-light 8-pane casements with L hinges. Off centre to left are C20 glazed double
doors. Straight joint to right, to the addition, also 2-storey, with C19 16-pane
sash at ground and first floor. The left side has a blind gable end. The dairy is
to left, of single storey with apple loft over, with a small 2-pane window at ground
floor and 2-light 3-pane casement to the loft. The right side has 4-panelled door to
left; the rear range has C19 4-pane sash at ground and first floor and chimney off-
centre to right. Lean-to to right of single storey with loft over, with 2-light
casement at upper level. At the rear, the former dairy has 2-light casement at
ground floor and two 2-light casements under the eaves; C20 casement, formerly a
door, to right. To left the addition has 2-light casement to rear, and a stable door
at the inner side, 2-light casement above.
Interior: The 2 rooms in the original building are now one, with a fireplace at each
gable end. Site of original stair not clear.
Listing NGR: SX0119666841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67619
- 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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