Rosewastis Farmhouse

ROSEWASTIS FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312079
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Rosewastis Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ROSEWASTIS FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312079
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Rosewastis Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ROSEWASTIS 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROSEWASTIS FARMHOUSE

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 91098 61754

Details

ST COLUMB MAJOR SW 96 SW 7/172 Rosewastis Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. Circa 1830 with few later alterations. Squared granite rubble with granite dressings at the front and the right sides; the rest in granite and slatestone rubble.. 2-span slate roof with lead rolls to the right, gable ends behind a parapet. End stacks with ashlar shafts and cornices. Plan: Double depth plan, with entrance set off-centre to right. Principal room to front and rear right, with stair hall to rear leading from the entrance hall. Service rooms to left to front and rear. Exterior: 2 storeys on plinth, asymmetrical front with 3 main bays to right and one bay to left. The three bays to right have central round-arched doorway with keystone, recessed C20 glazed door with Gothic fanlight. Early C19 12-pane sash with cambered arch and keystone to right and left, with 3 similar sashes at first floor. The bay to left has similar sash at ground and first floor. At the right side, ground and first floor to left and right have similar sash, with similar sash at first floor to centre and above in the centre a shallow elliptical arched niche with keystone. The left side is blind with single storey addition of later C19, with door and 2 casements; the rear range projects slightly. At the rear there is a half- glazed door to the cellar to left. The upper level has large 28-pane sash with round arch and Gothic glazing bars lighting the stair. Three bays to right are asymmetrical; ground floor has half-glazed door with segmental arch, 9-pane sash with cambered arch to right and left. Smaller window to left also with cambered arch. First floor has 12-pane sash, 16-pane sash and 4-pane sash with cambered arches and keystones. Interior: Not fully inspected. Open-well with swept handrail. Ground floor principal rooms have panelled shutters to windows. The house may retain other features of the early C19, such as cornices and good carpentry details.

Listing NGR: SW9109861754

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Legacy System number:
71176
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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