Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House
BATH HOUSE AND WELL HEAD EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196348
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- BATH HOUSE AND WELL HEAD EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196348
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bath House and Well Head East of Penrose Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATH HOUSE AND WELL HEAD EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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:
- BATH HOUSE AND WELL HEAD EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porthleven
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6416925915
Details
HELSTON
SW62NW PENROSE HILL
631-1/1/206 Bath house and well head east of
Penrose Manor House
GV II
Bath house. 1840. For John Rogers. Incised render with
pebbledash, granite dressings including ashlar plinth, copings
with moulded kneelers, window and door dressings; dry slate
roof with rear gable stack with octagonal pot. Single-cell
plan with sunken bath on right; Tudor Gothic style. Front end
has central 4-centred arched doorway with C20 copy 3-panel
studded door; slit window over doorway. 2-light mullioned
window to centre of each side wall, all windows with square
hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: incised plastered walls; red quarry
tiles, scissor trusses with bowtell-moulded purlins; 4-centred
arched cast-iron grate; Elvan steps down to slate-lined bath.
Subsidiary features: rounded well head at rear with rubble
wall and slate cap.
(Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: National Trust: 1986-).
Listing NGR: SW6416925915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385336
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Squires, S, Penrose Historic Society, (1986)
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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