The Manor House and Garden Wall to Front
THE MANOR HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289437
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Garden Wall to Front
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289437
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Garden Wall to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Issey
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 92820 71823
Details
ST ISSEY ST ISSEY SW 97 SW 4/236 The Manor House and garden wall to front
GV II
House and garden wall to front. Circa early C18. Ashlar slate stone with moulded plinth, string course and dressed stone flat arches with ashlar key blocks to openings. Stone rubble wing to rear right. Cement washed rag slate roof with half hipped ends. End and axial stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Front range of 2-room and central cross passage plan, the left hand room heated by an end stack and the right hand room by an axial stack on the rear wall. Original stair in projection to rear of passage. The rear wing is slightly off set, to the rear of the right hand room, and is of 2-room plan heated by axial and end stacks. This wing was partly used as a mill in the C19. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front. The masonry has been partly renewed on the right hand side and the lintels above, the windows have been replaced. Central entrance with 6-panel door and fanlight above, the doorcase replaced in the late C20. Four 12-pane sashes on ground floor and 5 above, the C20 sashes probably replacing early C18 sashes with heavy glazing bars. Moulded eaves with renewed dentilled cornice. Rear wing of 2 storeys and attic with a 4:1 window front, the openings altered and a loading bay inserted in the C19 on the far right. Interior has good early C18 detailing. Left hand room has complete raised and fielded panelling and shutters, a circa 1870s chimney-piece and C19 door. Right hand room heated by fireplace in rear wall, probably replacing a fireplace originally in the end wall. C19 joinery. Early C18 dog-leg stair to rear of passage with open string, turned balusters and deep moulded and ramped rail, wreathed around a cluster of 4 balusters which function as the newel; early C18 moulded cornice above. Several raised and fielded 6-panel doors, several reset. Remains of simple C18 chimney-piece in rear wing. Reset C18 window with heavy glazing bars in rear outshut. Roof structure: Early C18 roof with principals halved, lap-jointed and pegged at apices to form flush joints. Lap-jointed and pegged collars. The collars probably replacing tie-beams in the rear wing which were truncated when the floor level was altered. Including dressed stone wall enclosing small garden in front of the house; it is a low retaining wall with higher side walls and a gateway at the centre.
Listing NGR: SW9282071823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397186
- 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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