RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212525
Date first listed:: 20-May-1988
List Entry Name:: RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212525
Date first listed:: 20-May-1988
List Entry Name:: RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RUMFORD HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Ervan
National Grid Reference:: SW 89715 70155

Details

ST ERVAN RUMFORD SW 87 SE 3/182 Rumford House including front garden area wall and gate-piers

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House. Circa 1830-40, extended in late C19 and again in mid to late C20. Dressed slate rubble. Bitumenised scantle slate roof with gable ends; the later C19 extension to the left has a rag slate roof with gabled end. Red brick stacks at the gable ends; the axial stack to left of centre was the gable end stack of the original house. Plan: Double depth plan. The original house has 2 principal front rooms with a central entrance hall between probably containing the staircase at the back. The rooms at the back are probably smaller service rooms. Later in the C19 a 1-room wide double depth extension was built at the left end. In circa mid to late C20 a 2- storey extension was built at the back. Exterior: 2 storeys. 1:3 window front. The symmetrical 3-windows to the right is the original house, its windows have flat red brick arches with a granite keystones and slate cills and later C19 4-pane sashes. Central doorway with flat red brick arch with granite keystone and late C19 panelled and glazed door with a rectangular overlight. The 2 storey 1-window late C19 addition to the right has an original 16- pane sash on the ground floor and a C19 two-light 12-pane casement on the first floor with segmental brick arches and slate cills. The right hand side is blank and the left hand side has various C19 sashes and a plank door. At the back a 2 storey C20 rendered flat-roof extension. Interior not inspected, but may have C19 joinery such as doors, chimney-pieces and the original staircase. Including the late C19 front garden area walls with rounded corners left and right and rustic quartz capping ramped up to the central gateway also with rustic quartz capping. The late C19 or early C20 wooden gate has curved bracing above the mid rail.

Listing NGR: SW8971570155

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Legacy System number:: 397019
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.