Penhill Farmhouse
PENHILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327368
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PENHILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327368
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENHILL 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:
- PENHILL 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 86185 61300
Details
COLAN SW 86 SE 6/13 Penhill Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. Mid - late C17. Additions and alterations of circa mid C19 with few later alterations. Painted stone rubble. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stack to right with large rubble shaft and slate weathering; gable end stack to left with brick shaft. Plan: 2-room and through passage plan, each room heated from a gable end stack. In C19 a rear wing was added to right, of one-room plan, heated from a gable end stack. Exterior: 2 storeys and 3 windows, all C19, nearly symmetrical front. First floor has three 4-pane sashes of C19 with timber lintels. Ground floor has central half- glazed door, 4-pane sash to left and paired 4-pane sash to right. Central gabled dormer with 4-pane sash. Right gable end blind, with buttress. The C19 wing has 5- light window at ground floor and C20 door, 3-light window and 4-pane sash at first floor with triangular brick heads. C20 glazed porch set in the angle to the main house. The rear gable end of the wing has 4-pane sash at first floor to right. The left end of the main range is blind, rendered. The rear of the main range has plate- glass sash at ground and first floor to right. There is a projection in the wall which may possibly be the site of an early rear lateral stack. Single storey C19 rubble lean-to conceals the position of a rear passage doorway, and has a 2-light window. 4-pane sash above at first floor and gabled dormer with 4-pane sash. The inner side of the rear wing has 4-light window and blocked door, both with triangular brick heads. Interior: The central passage and the room to left are now all one room. C19 beams, and gable end fireplace with C20 chimneypieces. Rest of interior not accessible.
Listing NGR: SW8618561300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71018
- 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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