Penvergate Farmhouse

PENVERGATE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327081
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Penvergate Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PENVERGATE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327081
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Penvergate Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PENVERGATE 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:
PENVERGATE FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Goran
National Grid Reference:
SW 97874 41841

Details

ST GORAN SW 94 SE 3/75 Penvergate Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. Circa C18, with alterations and additions of mid - late C19 and some C20 alterations. Slate stone rubble; rendered front. Slate roof with lead rolls to ridge and gable ends. Gable end stack to right with brick shaft. The front wing to left has stack with rendered shaft and brick top at the gable end. Plan: 2-room plan, with a one-room plan wing to front left heated from a gable end stack at the front. There is a 2-storey porch set in the angle between the main range and the front wing. At the left side there is a later C19 addition containing a kitchen and a dairy, with apple store at the rear. Exterior: 2 storeys, an asymmetrical one-window front. At ground and first floor to right there is a C19 20-pane sash. The 2-storey porch has a recessed doorway with C19 4-panelled door and C20 single window to left. The front wing is to left, 2- storey; the gable end stack is external. At ground floor to right there is a C20 2- light 3-pane casement and at first floor to right a C20 2-light 9-pane casement. At the left side there is a single storey kitchen addition with scantle slate roof; C20 casement, 4-pane window and plank stable-type door at the left side. To left, the roof forms a catslide over the dairy and apple room, with two C20 2-light 6-pane casements. To end left there is a shallow gabled wing with C20 12-pane casement at ground floor and late C19 6-pane sash at first floor. The right end is blind, with deep bracketed eaves. At the rear, there is a C19 16-pane sash lighting the stair, and at ground floor to right a 2-light 2-pane casement. Interior: In the main range there is a central entrance hall with stair to rear; tight open-well stair with stick balusters, The room to right has C19 chimney-piece. The room to left has C20 fireplace and boarded ceiling; the window with plank shutters. The dairy and apple room are at the left side, the apple room served by a chute window at the rear. At first floor, the room to rear left has a blocked window with window seat, not visible from the exterior, and a C18 2-panelled door.

Listing NGR: SW9787441841

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
71573
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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