Fentongollan Farmhouse
FENTONGOLLAN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fentongollan Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FENTONGOLLAN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fentongollan Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENTONGOLLAN 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.
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:
- FENTONGOLLAN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Michael Penkevil
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 86211 43161
Details
In the entry for
SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER LANE
4/44 Fentongollan Farmhouse - The last sentence of the description 'Halse ...., circa 1650' shall be deleted.
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SW 84 SE ST MICHAEL PENKIVEL MERTHER LANE
4/44 Fentongollan Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. Probably early C18, but probably C17 core. Slatestone rubble, plastered cob above, granite quoins and asbestos slate roofs with brick chimneys over gable ends. Double depth plan with wing to rear. Main range built end on to slope. 2 storeys. 5-window front. Central door with hipped roof porch flanked by 3-light wooden sashes in widened openings, inserted midway between original ground floor window positions. First floor is rendered cob with 4-pane wooden sashes in original openings. External stack to right lower gable end. Rear is lower and irregular. Rear doorway, now window and door is nearer to left lower end. 2-light wooden casement with small panes to left and similar window to right but with gauze for ventilation in left light. Bead moulded timber lintels over openings with cob above. First floor left : wide 3-light casement with small panes; 2-light, 16-pane and 2-light 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes to right. Wing has small lean-to in angle of house and wing. Pent roof over doorway at end of outshut. Halse, the Cornish historian notes that stones from the old house at Fenton Goleen near by were placed in the portals, gates and building of the new Tregothnan q.v. Tregothnan House which was first built circa 1650.
Listing NGR: SW8621143161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62891
- 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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