Tranquility
TRANQUILITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Tranquility
- Statutory Address:
- TRANQUILITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Tranquility
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRANQUILITY
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:
- TRANQUILITY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78258 35190
Details
PENRYN
SW73NE Tranquility 580-1/1/2 22/09/71
GV II
Small country house. Early C19. Stucco on rubble with quoin strips; ground floor impost band and mid-floor band; dry slate hipped roof with projecting eaves, axial stacks. Double-depth plan plus service wing at right-angles to rear right. Regency style. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 3-bay, 3-window garden front. Half-conical roofed bowed central bay; C20 copy 16-pane hornless sashes with round fanlight heads to ground-floor sashes and late C19 small round-headed windows inserted to sides of central bay. Left-hand return is 2-window front with similar sashes. Rear has original central projecting entrance bay with 16-pane sash over, 6-panel door with moulded panels with corner blocks and spoked fanlight; recessed panels to sides of porch, 12-pane sash to stair hall on left; blind windows to bay set back on right with C20 spoked round window to lower panel and service wing projecting on the left. INTERIOR: virtually complete with fine plasterwork and joinery including: open-well open-string staircase with scrolled tread ends, ramped mahogany handrail and wreathed newel with carved post; doorways with moulded architraves with corner blocks with roundels, 6-panel doors; moulded and carved ceiling bands to entrance hall, stair hall, central reception room and right-hand room; moulded cornice to left-hand room and fanlight between entrance and stair halls. A good example of its type, with an elegant facade.
Listing NGR: SW7825835190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365683
- 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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