Bowden Derra
Bowden Derra
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248807
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden Derra
- Statutory Address:
- Bowden Derra
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248807
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden Derra
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bowden Derra
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:
- Bowden Derra
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewannick
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2576881815
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SX 28 SE
2/1
LEWANNICK
Bowden Derra
II
House, now used as home for people with learning disabilities. 1866 (datestone). Snecked Polyphant and local stone. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends. Lateral, axial and end stacks of snecked stone.
Plan: Overall 'L' shaped plan. Entrance to left of centre, the left hand room heated by a front lateral stack and the entrance hall and room to right probably sharing an axial stack. The wing to front right contains a second entrance and stair hall and the service rooms are accommodated beyond to right. The parallel range to rear contains principal rooms overlooking the garden.
High Victorian Gothic style.
Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical front elevation, the entrance to left of centre through a single storey porch with four-centred arch and datestone in the spandrels. Projecting lateral stack to left and three-light mullion and transom window lighting entrance hall to right. Four-centred relieving arch with three-light mullion window beyond first floor with one-light, two-light mullion window and three-light mullion and transom window. The wing to front right has an asymmetrically placed projecting stack on the gable end with an asymmetrically placed four-centred arch to the second entrance, at the base of the projection. The lower two-storey service range beyond has a bellcote on the ridge. The garden front is more regular. Two storeys with gable ends to cross wings set slightly forward to left and right. Central six-light mullion and transom window with two-light and one-light mullion window above. The left hand gable has a four-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor with a three-light mullion and transom window above and a quatrefoil in the gable end. To right, similar windows but of five-lights on the ground floor and with a ventilation slit in the gable end. To front, the garden has steep C19 terraces partly rebuilt in the C20.
Interior: Original carpentry and joinery with stair, doors and doorframes, chamfered two-centred Polyphant stone arches in the corridors and some chimney-pieces.
Only partially inspected inside.
Listing NGR: SX2576881815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430543
- 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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