Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse

HIGHER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312279
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HIGHER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312279
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER PORTHMEOR 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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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:
HIGHER PORTHMEOR FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Zennor
National Grid Reference:
SW 43260 37231

Details

ZENNOR SW 43 NW 3/234 Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse and adjoining walls at either end. Circa early C19. Granite rubble walls with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Slurried scantle slate over rear porch. Plan: shallow double-depth plan. 2 rooms at the front with cross passage between leading probably to stair between shallower rear service rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window south-east front. C20 door. Original 12- pane hornless sashes, right, and C20 windows, left. Rear has central lean-to porch with side entrance. Circa late C19 sashes. Interior: not inspected. Walls adjoin at front left and right. The left-hand wall is the remains of a probably C18 house with doorway and small window openings blocked. One-window has a C17 2-light mullioned-window head reused as a lintel. Part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet set in the ancient field system of this part of Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW4326037231

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
70571
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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