Higher Trefreock and Garden Walls to Front

HIGHER TREFREOCK AND GARDEN WALLS TO FRONT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320584
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Higher Trefreock and Garden Walls to Front
Statutory Address:
HIGHER TREFREOCK AND GARDEN WALLS TO FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320584
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Higher Trefreock and Garden Walls to Front
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER TREFREOCK AND GARDEN WALLS TO FRONT

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:
HIGHER TREFREOCK AND GARDEN WALLS TO FRONT

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Endellion
National Grid Reference:
SW 99260 79900

Details

SW 97 NE ST ENDELLION 4/2 Higher Trefreock and garden walls - to front GV II House and cottage, now one house and garden walls to front. Circa 1840s extended in circa 1870s. Ashlar stone with dressed stone segmental arches to openings and large dressed quoins. Slate roof with hipped ends and brick end stacks. Rear wing projecting on right with hipped roof and further 2-storey range on right, originally separate cottage with slate roof with gable end. Double depth plan with central stair hall with 2 reception rooms on left of hall, one room on right with passage to rear and service wing to rear in rear projecting wing which forms an overall 'L' shaped plan. Further extension set back on right with 1- room cottage now incorporated into main house. 2 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 3-window range with original C19 hornless 16- pane sashes. Ground floor with 2 sashes flanking C19 4-panel door with semi-circular fanlight with intersecting glazing bars and dressed stone round arch. 3 sashes above. 2-window range on right-hand side, comprising cottage, set back with entrance on right-hand side, 20-pane sash on ground floor and two 20-pane sashes above. Interior Main range with interior largely complete. Reception rooms on left-hand side with plaster cornices decorated with scroll patterns, balls and acanthus leaves and grapes, vine leaves and egg and dart motifs. Chimney-pieces replaced in 1970s. Room on right with C19 Delabole slate chimney-piece. Service rooms to rear with larder door intact. Original open-well stair with open-string, square balusters and ramped and wreathed rails. Stone rubble garden wall to front. Near site of the earlier manor house of Higher Trefreock of which there appears to be few remains. This building was illustrated in The History of Port Isaac and Port Quin Dr Frederick Trevan, 1833-34.

Listing NGR: SW9926079900

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Legacy System number:
351328
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Trevan, F, The History of Port Isaac and Port Quin, (1833-1834)

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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