Coombe Millhouse
COOMBE MILLHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158596
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Millhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBE MILLHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158596
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Millhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBE MILLHOUSE
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:
- COOMBE MILLHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Breward
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0886976308
Details
ST BREWARD
SX 07 NE
5/156 Coombe Millhouse
-
GV II
Millhouse. Circa late C16 or early C17. Stone rubble. Rag slate roof with gable
ends. Stone rubble, probably originally end stack later incorporated as an axial
stack to left of centre and stone rubble stack with brick shaft on right hand gable
end.
Plan: Original plan uncertain. Probably 2 rooms and through passage plan heated by
end stacks with masonry cross wall on lower right hand side of passage and partition
(now removed) on left hand side of passage. Ground slopes down to right. Circa C18
one room plan extension added on higher end on left, raised from 1 to 2 storeys in
circa mid C20. Outshot added to rear of earlier left hand room in circa C18.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. Range on left raised from 1 to 2
storeys in mid C20 with C20 window and door. Main range; 5 window, granite surround
of 2-light mullion window with 4-pane sash and small 1-light window to left of
entrance. 4-centred chamfered granite arch with ball and pyramid stops and open
porch of 2 roughly cut granite piers supporting a slate slab. 4-pane sash in partly
blocked opening to right. First floor with 4 2-light casements replaced in C20.
Rear elevation; lower side below passage rebuilt above ground floor, possibly in
early C19. Timber chamfered lintel above rear passage door with ogee stops. C18 or
C19 outshot to rear of higher room of earlier range.
Interior: Passage intact with cross wall on lower side probably rebuilt in late C19
and partition on higher side removed. Circa C19 timber stair on higher left hand
side of passage with 2 stone steps of possibly earlier stair surviving. Left hand
room of earlier range has an unusually small granite fireplace with granite lintel
and chamfered jambs. The chamfered ceiling beams have straight cut stops. Right
hand room reputed to have been used as a stable in C19. Larger fireplace with
chamfered granite lintel and granite rubble jambs. Slighter chamfered ceiling beams.
than left hand room with run-out stops. The ceiling beams above the passage have
been renewed in circa C18, C19 and C20 and several beams have been introduced in the
right hand room. First floor and roof structure not accessible.
Chesher, F and V M The Cornishman's House.
Listing NGR: SX0886976308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chesher, V M, F J, , The Cornishmans House, (1968)
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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