PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1159515
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1159515
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PENELEWEY BARTON FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kea
National Grid Reference:: SW 81845 40867

Details

SW 84 SW KEA

2/113 Penelewey Barton Farmhouse and garden walls to south

GV II*

Farmhouse and adjoining garden walls to south. 1710 remodelling of earlier house, for James Mayo. Partly brick front laid to English bond, otherwise slatestone rubble. Granite sills, flat brick arches and wooden lintels. Half-hipped asbestos slate roof with modillioned eaves cornice to front and sweeping lower to rear with central scantle-slated hipped dormer over integral stair turret. Hipped asbestos slate roof at lower level to right (east). Tall brick chimney over side wall, left, and further wider brick chimney over cross wall between main part of house and kitchen, right. Originally probably 3 room through passage plan, with upper end, ie. hall and inner room rebuilt in 1710 to become central through passage plan with reception room at either side and central stair hall between narrower and shallower integral rear service rooms. Lower end retained and remodelled as kitchen with enormous hearth backing onto cross wall. 2 storeys. Overall 4-window south front of symmetrical 3-window part with central doorway, and 1-window lower kitchen front, right. Main doorway with 6-panel door and pedimented doorcase is within C20 glazed porch. Ground floor rendered C20 to mid- floor brick platband. All original 1710 16-pane hornless sashes with very wide glazing bars with internal ovolo-moulding and original crown glass. One pane to window over door with John Vivian 1716 scratched on. Lower end, right has original 1710 12-pane 2-light casement, left, doorway, right, and original 16-pane sash over door. First floor walling stepped back, presumably rebuilt 1710, above first floor sill level. Further original sash to right-hand side (east) wall first floor with Hearle 1860 scratched on pane and original casement below. Rear has original tall sash to stair and 4 original 2-light casements 2 to first floor left of stair, 1 to right and 1 single-light casement to ground floor left of middle. Wide opening to ground floor right with later 12-pane 2-light casement. Wide doorway under and slightly to left of stair window. Brick lean-to laid to English bond with scantle roof at left. Single storey scantle roofed earth closet with ash house building adjoins at right-hand end. Interior survives almost complete from the 1710 remodelling. Doors, mostly 2 panelled with original architraves throughout and moulded plaster ceiling cornices to reception rooms and chambers including a fine canopied ceiling to chamber over kitchen, with ovolo and cavetto moulding to upper angle; panelled window shutters and high dado panelling to middle room. Stair hall has fine circa mid C18 Chinese Chippendale unequal dog-leg stair with landing balustrade, and moulded handrail becoming level over newels. It is possible that the main framework of the stair is original with balusters only replaced with Chinoiserie. Kitchen has C17 chamfered cross beam with stopped chamfers. Large fireplace with oven to right-hand side; bacon rack, with close set grid construction, fixed to middle of ceiling, and C18 dresser near door. Gate-piers and garden wall. Circa 1710. Brick laid to English bond with squared granite copings with arrow head finials over taller piers. 2 sections of walling running roughly north south with gateway midway and adjoining house to north. Square-on-plan gate-piers and terminal piers. Short flight of granite steps within gateway. Mentioned in 1285 in connection with the Statute of Merton, Rights of access; in 1568 Penelewey Barton was part of Trevilla and Freehold was sought by James Mayo in 1690. Historical information from Mr Withers, present occupier (1985) who has done a great deal of documentary research on Penelewey Barton. This is a very complete 1710 remodelling of an earlier house and particularly notable for the quality and quantity of the C18 features including its almost complete 1710 fenestration to front, rear and side. These remarkable windows themselves, both sashes and casements, are very early and well preserved examples complete with most of the original crown glass.

Listing NGR: SW8184540867

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Legacy System number:: 63400
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.