St Lawrence's

ST LAWRENCE'S

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219388
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1960
List Entry Name:
St Lawrence's
Statutory Address:
ST LAWRENCE'S

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219388
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
11-May-1989
List Entry Name:
St Lawrence's
Statutory Address 1:
ST LAWRENCE'S

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST LAWRENCE'S

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lezant
National Grid Reference:
SX3379479744

Details

LEZANT -
SX 37 NW
5/30 St Lawrence's (formerly
listed as St Lawrence's
22.11.60 Farmhouse and attached
cottage)

- II

Shown on OS map as St Lawrence's Chapel. Farmhouse, possibly incorporating remains
of domestic chapel. Mid C18 remodelling of late C15/early C16 building; later
additions and alterations. Roughcast and painted roughly coursed slate-stone, slate-
hung to front on first floor of main range; slate roofs, hipped to main range.
Original building probably a long range aligned approximately east-west, C18
extension to front forming present main range. 2 storeys. 3-window front to C18
addition, 16-paned glazing bar sashes, those to first floor directly below eaves.
Prominent central C20 gabled porch. Integral end stack to left with tall painted
brick top and shutter end stack to right. Integral end stack to rear right at
junction with right range and stone stack in rear roof slope to left. Right range
has C19 casements to left and right and C20 casement to centre directly below
eaves. C20 casement to either side of C20 gabled glazed porch over 4-panel door/top
panels glazed). Interior: One flat and several chamfered joists to left ground-floor
room of right range; chamfered joists to rear left room of main range (pre-C18
part). Open fireplaces with chamfered wood lintels and cloam ovens. Cusped trefoil-
headed piscina in front wall of right ground-floor room of right range is probably
C14. Collar truss roof in 4 bays (including hips) to C18 part and late C18/C19
king-post roof to long range, including part behind C18 addition. The piscina may
have been brought from elsewhere but in 1447 Bishop Lacy of Exeter granted an
indulgence in connection with a chapel here - probably a domestic chapel or oratory
associated with a manor house on this site.


Listing NGR: SX3379479744

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
393580
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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