Pencalenick House
PENCALENICK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161121
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pencalenick House
- Statutory Address:
- PENCALENICK HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161121
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pencalenick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENCALENICK HOUSE
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:
- PENCALENICK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Clement
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 85752 45297
Details
ST CLEMENT SW 84 NE 4/103 Pencalenick House - GV II
Country house, now school. Cast iron rainwater heads have date 1881 and initials M.H.W. Designed completed and occupied by Charles Williams. Freestone ashlar with details in darker colour. Delabole slate roofs (hipped and polygonal). Rectangular block around open courtyard with stair turret in angle and external service wing east of north east corner. 2 storeys. South garden front is 3:1:3:1:3 bays. Central 3 broken forward with pediment over. Flanking 2 storeyed canted bays. All bays have plinth platband, cornice and parapet. Taller central 18-pane sashes to flanking canted bows and central bay, others are 12-pane sash and all have horns. Eared, moulded shaped and keyed window heads to central and end groups of bays. Entrance to west side has prostyle, tetrastyle Tuscan porte cochere 2 storeyed, 3 window projection with pediment. Lateral chimneys have scrolled buttresses. Interior has wide open well stair with turned balusters, plaster ceilings and cornices including Arabesque and geometric strapwork designs in vestibules said to be by Italian craftsmen who were working on Truro Cathedral.
Listing NGR: SW8575245297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62807
- 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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