Trethewey Farmhouse

TRETHEWEY FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1289503
Date first listed:
20-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Trethewey Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TRETHEWEY FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1289503
Date first listed:
20-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Trethewey Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TRETHEWEY FARMHOUSE

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:
TRETHEWEY FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Ervan
National Grid Reference:
SW 90386 72150

Details

ST ERVAN SW 97 SW 4/172 Trethewey Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably late C18 or early C19 with some circa mid C19 alterations. Slate rubble, right-hand west end partly rendered. Grouted scantle slate roof with red clay ridge tiles. Brick stack over right-hand gable end, and brick stack over front and back of left-hand gable have rebuilt brick shaft. Plan: Double depth plan with shallow service rooms at the back. The 2 principal front rooms are about the same size, each heated from a gable end stack. The central entrance passage leads to a staircase and dairy behind the right-hand room and larger kitchen behind the left-hand room. Late in the C19 porches were added to the front and rear entrances of the passages. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window south front. The 3 small openings on the first floor have late C19 4-pane sashes and slate cills, the 2 larger ground floor windows have flat red brick arches and slate cills, the left-hand with original 16-pane sash, the right-hand a late C19 4-pane sash is only slightly larger than the first floor windows. The central doorway has a late C19 4-panel door and a late C19 glazed wooden gabled porch with a wooden finial. The rear elevation has late C19 sashes and casements and a central late C19 red brick porch. Interior: Virtually unaltered since the C19. All internal partitions are made of vertical planks and the C19 4-panel doors survive; the ceilings have exposed joists. The front left hand room has a C20 tiled chimney-piece and the right hand room has a C20 range inserted. The straight staircase in the rear stairhall has stick balusters, the lower part of the balustrade has been taken out. The panelled doors on the first floor are intact.

Listing NGR: SW9038672150

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
396975
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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