WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311539
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1969
List Entry Name:: WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR
Statutory Address:: WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311539
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WITHIEL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO REAR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Withiel
National Grid Reference:: SW9936465296

Details

WITHIEL WITHIEL SW 96 NE 3/154 Withiel House and outbuildings 6.6.69 attached to rear (formerly listed as Withiel House)

GV II

Rectory, now house. Circa 1815, incorporating some earlier materials, and with later alterations and additions, some C20 alterations. Granite ashlar front and sides; slatestone rubble. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves and crested ridge tiles. Axial stacks with ashlar shafts and cornices. Partly slate-hung at the rear. Plan: Double depth plan, with central entrance hall and principal room to front left and right. Stair hall to rear centre, and principal room to rear right; to rear left is the service wing of 3-room plan, which is returned to rear to enclose a rear yard for stabling and further services. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front, on plinth, with band course and rusticated quoins. First floor has 12-pane sashes with cambered arches and keystones, external shutters. Ground floor has C20 window in original opening to right and left, with external shutters. Central painted Doric portico with cornice and inner round-arched doorway with recessed arch, half-glazed double doors with fanlight. Right side has three 20-pane sashes at ground floor and first floor, all with cambered stone arches and keystones. The left side has 3 C20 windows at ground floor and three 12-pane sashes at first floor in similar surrounds. Rear wing to left, of 2 storeys, with 3 lateral ashlar stacks. The right a 12-pane sash lighting the service stair. Ground floor has 4-pane sash, three 12-pane sashes with cambered arches and keystones; first floor has 4-pane sash and 12-pane sash. The rear of the wing is slate-hung with a hipped roof, 12-pane sash at ground and first floor. The return wing is attached to left, also slate-hung with 12-pane sash at ground and first floor. To the left, there is a 28-pane sash at ground floor and a lean-to at the end. Facing the service yard, to right there are C20 garage doors with a 16-pane sash above. Enclosing the service yard is a sandstone rubble wall with doorway with brick segmental arch. Inside the service yard, the rear of the main house has a round-arched 15-pane sash lighting the stair with splayed glazing bars; to left an inset stone shield of arms with hand and lion. Steps leading down to a cellar door. The inner side of the service wing is rendered and lined out, with random fenestration. Attached to the right side of the house is a screen wall, in rubble, with lean-to's attached to the rear; this extends about 25 metres, and is taller at the front, about 4 metres high, about 2 metres high at the rear. Interior: The entrance hall has round-arched niches; stone paved floor. The rear stair hall also has a stone paved floor, with open-well stair set on a curve, with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. The rooms to front and rear left are now one room; the rear room retains a marble chimneypiece of circa 1815. The room to front right has C19 marble chimneypiece and plain cornice. All 6-panelled doors at ground floor.

Listing NGR: SW9936465296

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Legacy System number:: 67621
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.