Far View

FAR VIEW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1159045
Date first listed:
05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Far View
Statutory Address:
FAR VIEW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1159045
Date first listed:
05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Far View
Statutory Address 1:
FAR VIEW

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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:
FAR VIEW

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Linkinhorne
National Grid Reference:
SX 26481 72751

Details

LINKINHORNE SX 27 SE 6/8 Far View - GV II House. Late C19 with few later alterations. Painted stone rubble. Bitumenised slate roof with gable ends, hipped roof over rear wing; gable end stacks with shaped tops and end stack to rear wing. Plan: 2-room plan with entry directly into the room to right; each room heated by a gable end stack. To rear left there is a wing of one-room plan, heated by an end stack. The house was used as a pair of attached houses, and later as one house. Later lean-to in the angle between the wing and the main range, and a C20 addition to the left side. Exterior: 2 storeys and 2 windows. Ground floor has central half-glazed door with C20 hood; ground and first floor left have 16-pane sash, ground floor right a 2-light 8-pane casement, first floor right 2-light 2-pane casement; all windows at ground floor with plain granite lintels. Rendered lean-to of single storey to left with 2- light casement to front. Left side has rendered lean-to with 2-light casement to rear; the rear wing has a 2-light casement at first floor. The right side has a curved oven at the base of the stack; straight joint to the rear lean-to, which is single storey, with a 2-light casement. Rear has no windows; the rear lean-to forms a catslide roof with the main range. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2917273224

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Legacy System number:
62147
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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