Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
WESTBOURNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187331
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBOURNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187331
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Westbourne House and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTBOURNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WEST STREET
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:
- WESTBOURNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Liskeard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 24963 64656
Details
LISKEARD
SX2464 WEST STREET 979-1/5/192 (South side) 22/07/81 Westbourne House and attached forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET (South side) Westbourne House)
GV II
Large suburban house. 1816. Possibly by J Foulston for NW Penrose, Solicitor, refronted 1860 by Henry Rice. Incised stucco with stone dressings; dry Delabole slate hipped roof with projecting eaves on wooden brackets; stuccoed stacks with cornices, moulded gutters. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range south garden front. Original hornless large-paned sashes within stone surrounds; segmental-arched lights to ground floor; left and right-hand bays with 4-pane sashes over 2-light windows with triangular pediments with mutules to cornices; central bays have stepped tripartite sashes over canted 4-light segmental-arched stone bay windows with balustraded parapets over similar cornices; column mullions with Corinthian or Ionic caps. Original north entrance front of 1:3:1-bays has central porch with blind sidelights, roundels to panelled frieze and railings over parapet; doorcase with panelled sides and traceried fanlight; 4-panel door with fielded panels; projecting end bays have ground-floor sashes with segmental arched recessed panels; original horned sashes; stair sash right of door over porch, with coloured glass and margin panes. INTERIOR of porch has rib vault; egg-and-dart cornice to vestibule; traceried fanlight over inner doors with Art Nouveau glazed panels; open-well open-string staircase with mahogany handrail scrolled over newel; moulded and carved cornice. Some other moulded cornices and more Art Nouveau detail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls surmounted by railings with spearhead finials over bars and urns over stanchions.
Listing NGR: SX2496164660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382271
- 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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