Tresprison Cottages and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
TRESPRISON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1,2 AND 3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207515
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Tresprison Cottages and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- TRESPRISON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1,2 AND 3
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207515
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Tresprison Cottages and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRESPRISON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1,2 AND 3
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:
- TRESPRISON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1,2 AND 3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 67114 27249
Details
HELSTON
SW6627 TRESPRISON FARM 631-1/5/275 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 Tresprison Cottages and attached forecourt walls and railings
II
Two attached houses and attached cottage. C18 houses, early C19 cottage. Coursed Elvan rubble walls with flat Elvan arches to No.1 (left), granite quoins; oak lintels to No.2 except for granite lintel to later doorway; steep corrugated iron roof (replacing former thatch), scantle slate to cottage and corrugated asbestos to outshuts; Elvan ashlar end stacks to original houses, brick stack on right and brick stacks at rear. Single-depth plan plus later 1-room-plan cottage on the right and later rear outshuts. At some time the houses have been converted to 4 cottages but now probably reverted to being 2 houses but all empty at the time of survey. 2 storeys; overall 7-window range. Houses originally with symmetrical 3-window fronts with central doorways, now with extra doorway to front of each, left of original doorways; 4-panel doors to Nos 1 & 3; original mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes to No.3 and to right of No.2, otherwise C20 windows in original openings (probably originally horizontal-sliding sashes with thick glazing bars). INTERIOR not inspected but likely to retain original structural features and original carpentry and joinery. Subsidiary features: original rubble and earth hedge and gateways with granite monolithic piers to original houses and original mid C19 granite ashlar forecourt wall and iron railings in front of cottage (No.3). These two C18 houses, built as a near pair, are an unusual building type of this date in Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW6711427249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385346
- 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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