Pengersick Farmhouse
Pengersick Farmhouse, Pengersick Lane, Praa Sands
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311036
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Pengersick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Pengersick Farmhouse, Pengersick Lane, Praa Sands
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13199/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311036
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Pengersick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Pengersick Farmhouse, Pengersick Lane, Praa Sands
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:
- Pengersick Farmhouse, Pengersick Lane, Praa Sands
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Breage
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 58139 28430
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 22/10/2019
SW 52 NE
6/83
BREAGE
Praa Sands
Pengersick Lane
Pengersick Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Pengersick Farmhouse, PENGERSICK)
10.7.57
GV
II
Farmhouse, first built 1809 re-using stone from Castle boundary walls, cob and thatch; remodelled in granite in 1876. Faced granite rubble brought to course with granite quoins and dressings. Scantle slate roofs with gable brick chimneys those to right (east) and wing (north) on external rubble stacks.
Two room and cross passage plan; stairs to back of passage and rear wing off centre right forming an unequal 'T'; left rear has outshut. Kitchen/living room right of passage; wing with unheated service room and beyond a back kitchen with fireplace; in right hand rear angle later lean-to. Photographic evidence shows this as a cob or rendered house sliding sash windows and glazing bars, thatched roof and large low granite stack right (also a rear wing); late C19 changes involved raising roof, refacing, casing and refenestration. Wing stack may be semi-circular on plan (late C18-early C19).
Two storeys. Symmetrical three window front with central entrance. The fine four-centred moulded and bar-stopped granite door frame with frond spandrels re-used late C19 from porch of Pengersick Castle (qv) with label stops reversed. The windows are mid C19 sixteen pane hornless sashes. Hornless sashes also to wing.
Interior: Has mostly late C19 features. First floor and roof structure not inspected. Little altered since C19, close proximity to the castle and incorporating its principal doorway.
Listing NGR: SW5813928430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65783
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Map of Pengersick Barton (1696)
Pengersick Estate plan (1787)
Tithe Map, Breage (1842)
Ordnance Survey, Cornwall (1908) (1:2500)
Kresen Kernow – RH/2173: 14-year lease; rent £16 to John Dyke of Constantine, gent. & Richard Dyke of Cury (1809)
Kresen Kernow – BU/1172: A Survey of the Manor of Pengersick situate in the parish of Breage, Germoe, St Hilary; and of Trezella Mulfra in the Parishes of Gulval and Madron. The property of James Wentworth Buller, esquire. Surveyed by Thomas Corfield 1787. Revised by JH Rutger 1831.
Kresen Kernow – WH/2/22: Whitford and Sons, solicitors, of St Columb Major; letter book (18 July 1876).
Photograph circa 1860 of Pengersick Castle in Falmouth Public Library (Enys annotated copy of Twycross).
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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