Tamarisk Farmhouse
TAMARISK FARMHOUSE, ST AGNES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244931
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tamarisk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TAMARISK FARMHOUSE, ST AGNES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244931
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tamarisk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAMARISK FARMHOUSE, ST AGNES
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:
- TAMARISK FARMHOUSE, ST AGNES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Agnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SV8790808141
Details
SY 80 NE
135816/10010
ST AGNES
Tamarisk Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. C18, extended mid C19. Stone rubble, roughly brought to course, colour washed to east side; gabled dry slate roof with brick end stacks, those to C18 section with C18 stone bases.
PLAN: C18 house of two-room central-entry plan, absorbed into large mid C19 parallel range to west making double-depth plan; west dairy outshut.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys. Lower C18 cast front of two-window range with stone lintels over late C19 1/1 -pane sashes to central plank door; rendered porch with C20 half-glazed door. West front has stone lintels over homed 2/2-pane sashes and C20 door to south end of outshut.
INTERIOR: cast range retains pegged probably C15 trusses with reused wreckwood; left-hand room has granite fireplace and boarded ceiling with ships timbers to joists, and right-hand room has boarded ceiling with sawn joists (fireplace hidden behind studwork). C18 and C19 joinery including panelled doors.
Home of the Hicks family since they settled on the islands at the beginning of the C18. The older part, which was used as a post office and general stores until the First World War, comprises an unusual example of domestic vernacular predating the improvements on the islands of the mid C19 and later.
Listing NGR: SV8787608146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472814
- 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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