St Elvan Farmhouse and Attached Forecourt Walls
ST ELVAN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, TORLEVEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196478
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- St Elvan Farmhouse and Attached Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST ELVAN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, TORLEVEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196478
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Elvan Farmhouse and Attached Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ELVAN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, TORLEVEN ROAD
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:
- ST ELVAN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, TORLEVEN ROAD
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 63982 27406
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 TORLEVEN ROAD 631-1/4/228 (East side) 22/05/72 St Elvan Farmhouse and attached forecourt walls (Formerly Listed as: TORLEVEN ROAD St Elvan Farmhouse and attached farm buildings)
GV II
Farmhouse. 1840, replacing older house. For John Rogers. Killas rubble with granite sills and lintels except for rendered end wall on right; grouted scantle slate roof; external brick end stacks and lateral stack; mostly cast-iron ogee gutters and fascia boards with brackets. L-shaped single-depth plan with axial passage in front of left and kitchen and small pantry in front at far left; service wing at right-angles and projecting in front. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front plus 1-window return of service wing on the left. Original windows. 16-pane hornless sashes to front and central doorway with 4-panel door; remains of formerly glazed porch. Rear has 16-pane sash over 12-pane sash on left; then 2-light inward-opening casements with horizontal panes, some irregular composite and leaded; a round-arched stair window with intersecting glazing bars to head over glazed and panelled door, and on right of large stack a projection which is a cupboard for the kitchen, in front of which is a flagged floor over a well. 2-window-range farm entrance front has sashes with glazing bars and pantry window with horizontal glazing bars and some random leaded panes; central doorway with 4-panel top-glazed door under right-hand window. INTERIOR: original partitions, floors and roof structure, panelled doors, including one C18 reused 2-panel door; straight-flight staircase with turned newels, ramped handrails and stick balusters to landing. In the breakfast room is an original corner cupboard with shell head and round-arched pair of glazed doors with thin glazing bars. (Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: National Trust: 1986-).
Listing NGR: SW6398227406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385577
- 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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