Stables, Attached Screen Walls and Barn South East of Penrose Manor House
STABLES, ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS AND BARN SOUTH EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279696
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stables, Attached Screen Walls and Barn South East of Penrose Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES, ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS AND BARN SOUTH EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279696
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Stables, Attached Screen Walls and Barn South East of Penrose Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES, ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS AND BARN SOUTH EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
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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:
- STABLES, ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS AND BARN SOUTH EAST OF PENROSE MANOR HOUSE, PENROSE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porthleven
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 64229 25620
Details
HELSTON
SW62NW PENROSE HILL 631-1/1/209 Stables, attached screen walls and 22/05/72 barn south-east of Penrose Manor House (Formerly Listed as: PENROSE HILL Stables at Penrose Manor)
GV II
Stables and attached barn. Pre-1788. For John Rogers. Barn 1833-34, extended 1841 and remodelled 1855. Killas rubble with granite dressings; C20 scantle slate roof with central bellcote with pyramidal slate roof. U-shaped plan stables plus barn set back on the left built into the bank at the rear. 2 storeys; 2:1:2-bay central range with 2-window courtyard returns. Probably mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes. Central bay with side buttresses and broken forward and with low-pitched gable with central oculus and pair of sashes over elliptical-arched carriage doorway with C20 planked doors. Left- and right-hand bays with blind windows except for doorway on right with old planked door and 3-pane overlight. Left-hand return courtyard elevation has 2 blind windows over stable door and elliptical-arched carriage door; other return similar but with 12-pane sashes to 1st-floor. Rear of left-hand wing is an irregular 3-window range with mid C19 hopper lights with vertical glazing bars and random panes over horizontal-sliding vents plus window with margin panes and coloured glass on the left; two 1st-floor loading doorways and 2 ground-floor doorways including doorway to lean-to on right spanned by chamfered oak lintel. Barn front is 3 bays and symmetrical plus 1-bay 3-storey extension on the right; original left-hand window with vertical glazing bars and random panes, others with original shutters, loading doorway (central to original front) over wide doorway flanked by narrow doorways, all with planked and ventilated doors. Extension on right has 12-pane fixed lights to 1st floor over wide doorway and blocked doorway on right; short flight of granite steps up left of wide doorway. INTERIOR: shippon with C19 wooden stalls flanking central cart/feed bay. Stalls retain tether chains and slate troughs and cobbled floors with tiled drains. Subsidiary features: rubble screen walls with hog-back granite copings flanking left-hand wing of stables. Gateway left of stables with square granite piers with round heads; wall ramped up behind left-hand pier; other wall with rounded end surmounted by later granite cap. (National Trust Vernacular Buildings Survey: 1986-; Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: 1986-).
Listing NGR: SW6422925620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385343
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
National Trust Vernacular Building Survey, (1986)
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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