Helston Lodge

HELSTON LODGE, PENROSE HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196351
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Helston Lodge
Statutory Address:
HELSTON LODGE, PENROSE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196351
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Helston Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
HELSTON LODGE, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HELSTON LODGE, 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:
SW 64613 25617

Details

HELSTON

SW62NW PENROSE HILL 631-1/1/203 Helston Lodge

GV II

Estate lodge. 1838-41. By H Park Street. For John Rogers. Kitchen added 1879. Killas rubble with granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roof with projecting eaves and verges with angled moulded fascia, moulded barge boards and exposed paired purlins with nail-head ends, 2 gabled dormer windows; 2 lateral rubble stacks, one in the angle and one at rear left, both with granite weatherings and brick shafts. Original plan L-shaped plus later kitchen at rear left. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space; irregular 2-window entrance front with entrance wing fronted by gable porch projecting forward on the right. 3-light granite mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor, 2-light windows to 1st-floor, all with C20 casements with glazing bars. 1st-floor left-hand window on moulded corbelled sill; window to ground and 1st-floor of right-hand return. 4-centred arched granite doorway with the 2 arch stones projecting as moulded kneelers; studded door with 3 vertical panels and small windows to sides of porch. INTERIOR: original panelled doors and other carpentry and joinery features but C20 staircase. Above the bay window is a frieze of carved panels some of which are probably C17 and presumed to have come from the Manor House (qv).

Listing NGR: SW6461325617

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
385339
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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