Trethiggey Farmhouse
TRETHIGGEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312438
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trethiggey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TRETHIGGEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312438
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trethiggey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRETHIGGEY 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:
- TRETHIGGEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 84626 59689
Details
COLAN SW 85 NW 10/18 Trethiggey Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. Circa 1830-40 with very few later alterations. Said to have been built for Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. Brown elvan ashlar front with stone rubble to rear. Hipped slate roof with ashlar stacks to sides with cornices; deep bracketed eaves. Plan: Double depth plan, with central entrance and principal room to front left and right. Kitchen to rear left and service rooms to rear right, stair to rear centre. At the rear, the service rooms form 2 shallow wings. Exterior: 2 storeys, a symmetrical 3-window front. All windows are original C19 16- pane sashes with voussoirs and keystones. Central panelled double doors with 4- centred arched margin glazed fanlight set in elliptical recessed archway. Plinth, band course and rusticated quoins. Right side has blind painted sash at ground and first floor to left and at first floor to right. Sash at ground floor right. 16- pane sash at ground and first floor to centre. Plinth and band course continued. Small single storey outhouse attached to right. Left side blind; plate-glass sash at first floor to right. At the rear, there are 2 shallow wings, with central round- arched stair light with radiating glazing bars. Wing to left has door at ground floor and 16-pane sash at first floor. Wing to right has door and 16-pane sash, and 16-pane sash at first floor. Between the 2 wings is a single storey block, with a tall ventilator window to the dairy. Interior: The front entrance hall has plaster cornice with central rosette. Hexagonal paving in brown elvan. Dog-leg stair with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and scrolled string. The front right room has wooden chimneypiece and plaster cornice. The doors and joinery at ground floor are all painted with imitation wood graining, of circa 1950, but of very high quality. The kitchen to rear left has C20 range inserted in the fireplace; C19 mantel and gun rack, with settle by the rear window. Servants' bells and service stair boxed in to rear left. The dairy and larder to rear right have slate paving, and a wooden bacon rack is preserved in the house. This is a high quality farmhouse of the early C19, with the plan and internal features all retained.
Listing NGR: SW8462659689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71023
- 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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