Trethowel Farmhouse
TRETHOWEL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310984
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trethowel Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TRETHOWEL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310984
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trethowel Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRETHOWEL 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:
- TRETHOWEL FARMHOUSE
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 82958 42618
Details
SW 84 SW KEA
2/122 Trethowel Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse and adjoining garden walls to north and north west. Circa late C18. Slatestone rubble walls with stuccoed front. Asbestos slate roof, half-hipped to left (north east) with brick chimneys over sides wall, left, gable end right, and over half-hip of corrugated iron roofed wing to rear. Plan of 2-rooms flanking central stair with service wing at right angles to rear of north east end, formerly with farm building attached to south west end of house but demolished circa 1960s. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window north west front. Doorway slightly off- centre to right with open pediment doorcase with modillion brackets. Round-arched opening rises into tympanum. Door has 6 fielded panels and integral 8-panes overlight. Window openings have slate sills and keyed cambered arches. All original hornless sashes with much crown glass. Ground floor windows are taller with 16-pane sashes and first floor has 8-pane sashes. Paired eaves brackets support original wooden launder. Rear wing has original wide tripartite sashes. Timber lintels. Wide 4-light window, lighting stair, returns with 1 light to rear wall. Straight joint under suggests that stair window was taller and that wing must be slightly later. 4-panel door under middle lights of window. Cast iron ogee gutters. Interior is very intact with original 6-panel doors with fielded panels, architraves, window shutters and plaster ceilings. Front rooms have moulded cornices and bands. Open-well stair has stick balusters with plinths. First floor rooms and roof structures not inspected but roof over wing is said to be of much cruder construction with partly hewn timber. Slate coped rubble wall adjoins north corner and returns parallel to front of house as low coped wall surmounted by hooped wrought iron railings. Central gateway with dressed granite piers and single-braced iron gate hung for self-closing.
Listing NGR: SW8295842618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63408
- 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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