Nansidwell
NANSIDWELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161469
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Nansidwell
- Statutory Address:
- NANSIDWELL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161469
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Nansidwell
- Statutory Address 1:
- NANSIDWELL
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:
- NANSIDWELL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mawnan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78464 28203
Details
SW 72 NE MAWNAN
9/178 Nansidwell
II
Countryhouse. Circa 1905. Built for Sir Sidney Bowlatt and designed by Leonard Stokes. Killas rubble with granite dressings, steep dry Delabole slate gabled roofs. Large stone axial stacks over the cross wall. Projecting eaves with exposed rafter ends. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan with 4 large rooms along a garden front range under one roof; a large heated hall in a wing at right angles behind the left-hand side with another room beyond; entrance porch in the angle left of this wing; a similar depth but lower service wing behind the right-hand side; 2 small cross wings (aligned with canted bays at the front) between the front rooms of rear wings with large stair hall, and a flat-roofed single storey service range behind the stair hall also linked to the front of the rear wings. Exterior: 2-storeys. Regular 1:1:1:2-bay south east garden front with no doorways; plinth; mullioned windows with flat mullions and leaded lights and transoms to the ground floor windows; left-hand bay has 6~light window; second and third bays have on ground and first floors canted 2:3:7 light bay windows with tented leaded roofs and gables over; and right-hand bays have 2-light windows. South west 1:1:1-bay entrance front has gable end of garden front range, on the right with 4-light windows to ground loor and 3-light window above and set back on the left is the 1:1-bay side wall of the principal wing with 2-light windows to the hall bay. Towards the right in the angle between the 2 ranges is an entrance porch with round-headed doorway. Original door and windows. Overlooking the rear courtyard the windows are wooden casements with thick glazing bars. Interior: Where inspected is virtually complete and unaltered with features in approximately the style of circa the early C18 including: open-well open-string stair with turned balusters; moulded ceiling cornices (both wooden and plaster); panelled doors and architraves; eared chimney-pieces with pulvinated friezes, and many individual touches eg. a built in settle in the stair hall and the hall chimney- piece is set back within a large ingle-nook with seats at either side. Oak floors.
Listing NGR: SW7846428203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66160
- 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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