Higher Nansloe Farmhouse and Attached Wall
HIGHER NANSLOE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, DEGIBNA LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208303
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Nansloe Farmhouse and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER NANSLOE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, DEGIBNA LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208303
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Nansloe Farmhouse and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER NANSLOE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, DEGIBNA LANE
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:
- HIGHER NANSLOE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, DEGIBNA LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6616426288
Details
HELSTON
SW64NE DEGIBNA LANE
631-1/2/123 Higher Nansloe Farmhouse and
attached wall
II
Farmhouse. C17, remodelled and extended mid C19. Local rubble
with granite dressings and some cob with incised render
replacing stucco to front of original part; hipped scantle
slate roof to later range, otherwise replaced with asbestos
slate sweeping lower at rear; brick end stacks.
Rectangular plan: original 2-room plan (now 1 room) house with
continuous outshut at rear and mid C19 stair hall and parlour
extension (with roof at right-angles to main roof) on the
left. 2 storeys; 3-window range and taller 1-window-range
extension on the left. Original and very rare late C17 oak
3-light mullioned window to ground-floor right with internal
cyma moulding and original saddle bars to right-hand light and
later iron bars inside; early C19 hornless sash on the left;
horizontal-sliding sashes to 1st-floor left and right, all
with glazing bars; later smaller central casement window over
probable blocked doorway. Extension has original 12-pane
hornless sashes except to 2-window-range. Left-hand return
where left-hand ground floor window replaced with doorway C20
and original round-arched stair window with fanlight head.
Rear of original house has two C18 horizontal-sliding sashes
(presumably resited) with thick glazing bars except for
removal of vertical glazing bars to ground-floor window; other
rear windows later; old planked door.
INTERIOR: at right-hand end of original house is very large
stone fireplace with cambered roughly-chamfered hardwood
lintel and possible smoking chamber on its right with its own
flue rejoining main flue higher up; mid C19 moulded joists;
boarded partitions hidden and mid C19 open-well open-string
staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail scrolled
over turned newel post. Interior of 1st floor and remainder of
extension not inspected.
Subsidiary features: retaining wall on the right (upper part
rebuilt C20) linked to curved entrance with dressed granite
piers and threshhold of reused cider press base.
Listing NGR: SW6616426288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385468
- 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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