RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327521
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES
Statutory Address:: RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327521
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES
Statutory Address 1:: RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: RAFTRA FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR COURTYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING COACH HOUSE, EARTH CLOSET AND STABLES

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Levan
National Grid Reference:: SW 37544 23326

Details

ST LEVAN RAFTRA SW 32 SE 7/204 Raftra Farmhouse, including front - and rear courtyard walls and adjoining coach house, earth closet and stables GV II Farmhouse, including front and rear garden walls and adjoining coach house, earth- closet and stables. Circa mid C18 extended in the C19. Granite ashlar front, otherwise coursed dressed granite some reused C17 chamfered fragments. Asbestos slate roof at the front, otherwise grouted scantle slate. Brick chimneys over the gable ends. Plan: Overall U-shaped plan plus stable in rear-left-hand corner of rear courtyard. Original double depth plan house at the front has parlour on the left, slightly larger kitchen on the right with entrance hall between leading to stair hall flanked by shallow rear service rooms. Circa early C19 a 1-room plan kitchen wing was added at right angles behind the right-hand side and a deeper plan stables, heated grooms loft over stables with external stone steps, heated coach house and adjoining earth closet was added at right angles behind the left-hand side of the house. The plan has not been altered since. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-west front with doorway left of middle, central to fenestration. Original openings. Circa late C19 or early C20 panelled door and 4-pane horned sashes. Circa mid-C20 glazed porch. Rear has unaltered elevations (except for a doorway cut at a later date) facing into the courtyard. Circa early C19 stair sash has traceried head. Coach house has tall wide doorway which is either an old alteration or the coachhouse is an extension to the stables. The other stable has a doorway at its front. Interior: C18 features include: dog-leg stair with column-turned balusters over a closed string; 2-panel doors to first floor rooms. Ground floor rooms have some good quality early C19 features. Doorways have roundels to the corner blocks of the architraves. Shallow rectangular garden at the front and deep rear courtyard have dressed granite and rubble walls except for rear wall which is built of vertical granite monoliths.

Listing NGR: SW3754423326

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Legacy System number:: 69754
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.