Little Sellan Farmhouse
LITTLE SELLAN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311486
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Sellan Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE SELLAN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311486
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Sellan Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE SELLAN 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:
- LITTLE SELLAN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sancreed
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 43140 30395
Details
SANCREED SELLAN SW 43 SW 2/305 Little Sellan Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Probably C18, incorporating dressed masonry from C17 house including stone dated 1666, remodelled and probably extended circa early C19. Granite ashlar to most of front, slate hanging to left-hand side of front and at left-hand gable end, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roofs (replaced with asbestos slate at the front). Brick chimneys over the gable ends and over axial wall of rear left-hand wing. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan with 2 rooms at the front with central through passage: parlour on the left with later single-storey 2 room service range at right angles behind; L-plan stair on the left of the passage; large kitchen/living room on the right with large fireplace and heated outshut, with chamber above, behind the kitchen. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-south-east front with central round-headed doorway. Ashlar masonry up to ground floor sill level is of a different colour and may survive from an older front. Window openings in slate-hung part, on the left are spaced farther from the doorway than those on the right. Ground floor opening on the right is spanned by a flat arch. C20 panelled door with blind masonry fanlight over. Circa early C20 horned sashes with vertical glazing bars. Rear wall has reused C17 masonry including moulded and panelled lintel with the date 1666 in relief in one panel, a moulded jambstone with cross stop and 2 heads or sills of 2-light mullioned windows. Interior: Kitchen fireplace has moulded and panelled chimney-piece, probably C18. Other features date from the circa early C19 remodelling including: moulded ceiling beams, architrave with nail-head decoration and corner blocks and 2-panel doors to chambers. Parts of roof structure may be C18 but much is renewed.
Listing NGR: SW4314030395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69845
- 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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