Rissick Farmhouse
RISSICK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327477
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rissick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RISSICK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327477
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rissick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RISSICK 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:
- RISSICK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 39095 26657
Details
ST BURYAN SW 32 NE 4/53 Rissick Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. C17, built in at least 2 phases. Granite rubble, some granite ashlar and granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roofs. Dressed granite stacks over the gable ends and over a cross wall (originally a gable end), left of middle. Plan: Original house on the right is a 3 room plan (now 2 rooms) with a parlour on the left, a cross passage right of the parlour; an unheated room right of the passage; the hall at far right and at right angles behind the passage is a 1 room plan service wing also containing the stairs. On the left is a later C17 2-room plan addition with a stair projection behind the left-hand side at the rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 5 window range with its orginal chamfered doorway and chamfered mullioned windows. Original house on the right has a slightly irregular 3 window front with original doorway left of middle, a 2-light window right of the doorway and a 4-light window at left and right; first floor has three 3-light windows and a small blocked window opening at far right at lower level, (probably a former stair window). Later C17 addition on the left has a nearly symmetrical 3 window front with original 2-light windows and later approximately central doorway. Rear has several C17 window openings some of which are blocked. Interior: Original granite fireplace in each room: 2 fireplaces in original part have chamfered jambs and lintels; the fireplace at the left-hand end has a chamfered lintel. Old first floor beams in the left-hand room (boxed in) and possibly there is an old roof structure (not inspected). There is said to be a plaster barrel ceiling in the chamber of the rear wing.
Listing NGR: SW3909526657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69612
- 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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