Whitestone Cottage
WHITESTONE COTTAGE, PENROSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297678
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Whitestone Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHITESTONE COTTAGE, PENROSE HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13279/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297678
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Whitestone Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITESTONE COTTAGE, PENROSE HILL
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:
- WHITESTONE COTTAGE, 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 63848 25867
Details
HELSTON
SW6225 PENROSE HILL 631-1/6/211 Whitestone Cottage 24/03/50 (Formerly Listed as: PENROSE HILL The Thatched Cottage)
II
Small house and attached former brewhouse. C18. Limewashed rubble and cob; wheat-reed thatched roof to original house with rubble end stacks and C20 scantle slate to remainder; large stepped rubble stack towards right, mostly external, and brick axial stack over single-storey part on right. Shallow L-plan house with 2 front rooms; kitchen/living room on left with pantry and stair outshut behind and parlour on the right. Right of this is a rectangular brewhouse with loft over plus single-storey extension at far right. 2 storeys; overall 4-window range. Original house has symmetrical 3-window front with original or C20 copy 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes except for 9-pane hornless sash to ground floor right and central doorway with planked door. Brewhouse has hornless sashes with glazing bars rising into C19 heightened eaves and doorway left of centre with old planked door and small flanking window openings with old fixed light on the left and C20 window on the right. Rear of brewhouse has blocked former loading doorway. INTERIOR: many original features including plank and muntin partitions and irregular nailed collar trusses with battens/purlins for thatch. c1900 tiled iron grate in parlour.
Listing NGR: SW6384825867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385344
- 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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