Penhellis
PENHELLIS, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208296
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Penhellis
- Statutory Address:
- PENHELLIS, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208296
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Penhellis
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENHELLIS, CROSS STREET
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:
- PENHELLIS, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6565827627
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 CROSS STREET
631-1/4/119 (North side)
17/07/75 Penhellis
GV II
Shown on OS map as Penhellaz.
Suburban villa. 1840s. By George Wightwick. For Frederick
Hill. Incised stucco with hoods on pilasters with consoles and
sill brackets to 1st floor, moulded eared architraves to
ground floor; dry Delabole slate hipped roofs with wide eaves
on brackets; stepped stucco axial stacks with moulded
cornices. L-shaped double-depth plan plus attached coach house
and stables parallel to rear at right-angles.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front. Original sashes with
glazing bars; central 3-light window with round-arched lights
over original doorway with 6-panel door framed by sidelights
and overlights with latticed glazing; slate-roofed porch with
moulded entablature on paired Corinthian columns. Left-hand
return has early C20 bowed 5-light window with horned sashes
with glazing bars; projecting on the left a 2-window range
detailed like the front. Rear is 6-window range with original
12-pane hornless sashes except for 5 blind openings on the
right. 2-window service wing with original sashes over horned
copies. C20 heightened coach house has 3 bays, blind except
for 1 original sash. Rear return of coach house/stables
altered C20.
INTERIOR: complete where inspected. Original features include:
segmental vault to entrance hall, the vault adjacent to stair
hall with cross ribs; open-well, open-string staircase with
turned balusters, shaped brackets and handrail scrolled over
newel; acanthus ceiling cornice over stair with petalled
central rose. Drawing room (left) with anthemion over egg and
dart cornice and marble chimneypiece with florets to frieze;
right-hand room (the library) with moulded ceiling cornice
(fireplace not inspected) and dining room (behind drawing
room) with original marble chimneypiece and ornate cast-iron
grate (similar to one at Lismore, qv) and probably later C19
interlaced ceiling band over original egg and dart cornice.
Copies of the architect's drawings are exhibited in the
entrance vestibule.
Listing NGR: SW6565827627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385466
- 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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