America

AMERICA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327510
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
America
Statutory Address:
AMERICA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327510
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
America
Statutory Address 1:
AMERICA

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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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:
AMERICA

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:
SW4221225301

Details

ST BURYAN SW 42 NW 5/27 America - GV II 2 adjoining cottages. Circa early C19, extended circa 1910. Granite rubble walls with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends and 5 gabled dormers at the front. Brick chimneys over original gable ends and over right-hand gable end of 1910 addition. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters and cast-iron down pipes. Plan: Long rectangular plan with later single-storey lean-tos at rear. Original 2- room-plan house on the left with probably lobby entrance and stair between the rooms. 1910 house on the right has similar but wider plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 5-window range. Original nearly symmetrical 2-window- front house on the left with doorway central to fenestration. Old 4-panel door. Similar but wider 3-window front on the right with original 1910 ledged door and overlight. Windows are probably 1910 horned sashes with marginal panes. First floor windows rise above the eaves level and are in stone gables. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW4221425306

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
69585
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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