Roskear

ROSKEAR, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327452
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Roskear
Statutory Address:
ROSKEAR, FORE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327452
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Roskear
Statutory Address 1:
ROSKEAR, FORE STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
ROSKEAR, FORE STREET

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Grampound with Creed
National Grid Reference:
SW9354548329

Details

GRAMPOUND FORE STREET (north side), Grampound
SW 9248-9348 WITH CREED
7/38 Roskear
-
GV II

House. Possibly early C18; remodelled circa mid C19 with some C20 alterations.
Stone rubble with granite dressings. Bitumenised slate roof with ridge tiles and
gable ends. Gable end stack to right with brick shaft.
Plan: 2-room plan, with one room to front and rear to right, and the entrance to
left. The rooms to right are heated from the gable end stack. At the left side of
the front there is a doorway leading to an open passage which runs along the left
side of the house. The room at first floor over the passage belongs to the adjoining
house to left, Godfrey's (q.v.).
Exterior: 2 storeys, nearly symmetrical 2-window front. Ground floor has the
passage doorway to left with flat granite arch and voussoirs. To right there is a
C20 half-glazed door with overlight and C19 16-pane sash, with flat arches and
voussoirs. First floor has two C19 16-pane sashes, also with flat arches and
voussoirs. At the left side, inside the passage, there is a 4-panelled C20 door with
overlight; the passage has weatherboarded sides. The rear of the main house has C20
2-light casement at ground floor, with a chamfered timber lintel which is carried
over the window and across the entrance to the passage.
Interior: Not accessible at time of survey (September 1987).


Listing NGR: SW9354548329

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Legacy System number:
71380
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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