Melody House
MELODY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310954
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melody House
- Statutory Address:
- MELODY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310954
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melody House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELODY HOUSE
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:
- MELODY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 77086 43131
Details
SW 74 SE KEA BALDHU
1/127 Melody House
II
Vicarage, now private house. Circa 1848. Built for the Reverend William Haslem and possibly designed by him or helped by William White who designed the church, Killas rubble walls with shallow rubble arches over openings and slatehanging to side wall (south west). Scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys over gable ends with external breast to right and lateral shaft over side wall, left, and hip to front (south east) projection of cross wing. Irregular plan of overall L-shape with 2 unequal reception rooms flanking through passage leading to stair behind left-hand room within integral wing kitchen beyond and integral lean-to at kitchen gable end. Roof sweeps slightly lower to rear of right-hand room with narrow room behind. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window south east front with 1-window hipped shallow projecting wing, left, with wider ground floor window with 3-light casement and 2- light casement over. 2-window part, set back to right has doorway to far left, adjoining angle, with C20 top-glazed door and window over. Wider window to ground floor right has 2-light transomed window with marginal panes. Otherwise windows are original 1-, 2- or 3-light casements with small panes, except some C20 windows to rear. A C19 engraving by Butterworth and Heath shows a conservatory/verandah with a 3-bay arcade, flush with and to right front wing. Interior is little altered with original narrow open-well open string stair with mahogany handrail wreathed over newel with curtail step. Moulded ceiling cornices to reception rooms and to stair ceiling also with moulded band. Original doors and architraves.
Listing NGR: SW7708643131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63411
- 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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