Luxtowe House
LUXTOWE HOUSE, GREENBANK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206630
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Luxtowe House
- Statutory Address:
- LUXTOWE HOUSE, GREENBANK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206630
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Luxtowe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUXTOWE HOUSE, GREENBANK 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:
- LUXTOWE HOUSE, GREENBANK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Liskeard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2534964865
Details
LISKEARD
SX2564 GREENBANK ROAD
979-1/5/113 (South East side)
22/07/81 Luxtowe House
II
Large suburban house now offices. 1831 datestone. By George
Wightwick. For William Glencross. Coursed rubble with granite
dressings; some slatehanging; dry slate roofs, some with coped
gables otherwise hipped; embattled parapet over entrance; tall
chimneyshafts hexagonal and diamond, singles, pairs or in
threes.
2 attached irregular-plan blocks with courtyard between. Tudor
Gothic style. 2 storeys. Principal entrance range has plinth,
hoodmoulds and gable finials. NE entrance front is 1:3:1 bays
with canted right of centre bays with central 4-centred arched
doorway with corbelled 4-light oriel over and tall finials
over the angles; single 4-centred arched lights to canted
bays; gable end on left has 2-light transomed mullioned
window; 3-light mullion above, both with 4-centred arched
lights and dated coat-of-arms to gable; embattled right-hand
bay blind except for small ground-floor window.
SE garden front is 1:1:1:2 bays with projecting cross wing on
left with slatehanging to 1st floor, gables above windows rise
from embattled parapet; 2-light casements within moulded stone
surrounds; slate-roofed wooden verandah to ground floor. NW
courtyard elevation retains some windows, including large
stair window, with cast-iron lozenge glazing.
INTERIOR has many original Tudor-Gothic style doors and
mouldings; traceried fanlight over tripartite lobby door;
open-well staircase and some moulded and carved plasterwork.
(Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 889-90).
Listing NGR: SX2534964865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 889-890
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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