Glencairn
GLENCAIRN, UNION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311936
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glencairn
- Statutory Address:
- GLENCAIRN, UNION HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311936
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glencairn
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLENCAIRN, UNION HILL
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:
- GLENCAIRN, UNION HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Columb Major
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 91426 63597
Details
ST COLUMB MAJOR UNION HILL (north side), SW 9063-9163 St Columb Major 17/268 Glencairn - GV II
House. Mid - late C19, with few later alterations. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Slate roofs with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Lateral stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Double depth plan, with entrance in a projecting bay at the front and three principal rooms facing the garden along the right side. Service rooms to rear left, in a wing enclosing a small courtyard at the left side of the house. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front; gable end projecting to left with 2-storey shallow gabled porch tower; 2-centred arched doorway with double half-glazed doors, with Gothic glazing, buttress to right and left. First floor has 2-light plate-glass window with terracotta finial. Deep eaves with similar finial to the main gable above. To right the gable end has external stack and first floor string course. The right side is the garden front, witha gabled bay projecting to right and left and central bay. The gabled bay to left has 2-storey canted bay with hipped roof, plate-glass casements at ground and first floor. The gabled bay to right has similar 3-light window at ground floor and 2-light window at first floor, with a single light to the attic. The centre bay has 2-light window at ground and first floor with first floor string course. At the left side, the entrance to the service courtyard has a pair of square plan ashlar piers, about 2 metres high, with stepped pyramidal caps. The left side of the house has a large gable over the stair hall with large mullion and transom window with 4 margin glazed Gothic lights; single light at ground floor to right and single storey C20 addition to left. 2-storey addition attached to rear left and a 2-storey service wing behind with hipped roof and end stack to left. 2 margin-glazed sashes at ground floor and one at first floor. The end has single storey C19 lean-to. Interior: The front room on the garden front has a marble chimneypiece with consoles, fine C19 cast iron grate with ogee hood and crocketed pinnacles. The stair well is to left of the entrance, open well stair with turned balusters and moulded wreathed handrail. The porch has fielded dado panelling.
Listing NGR: SW9142663597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71268
- 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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