Barn With Horse-engine House and Water Wheel 30 Metres to West of Carhart Farmhouse

BARN WITH HORSE-ENGINE HOUSE AND WATER WHEEL 30 METRES TO WEST OF CARHART FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327916
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Barn With Horse-engine House and Water Wheel 30 Metres to West of Carhart Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BARN WITH HORSE-ENGINE HOUSE AND WATER WHEEL 30 METRES TO WEST OF CARHART FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327916
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Barn With Horse-engine House and Water Wheel 30 Metres to West of Carhart Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BARN WITH HORSE-ENGINE HOUSE AND WATER WHEEL 30 METRES TO WEST OF CARHART FARMHOUSE

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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:
BARN WITH HORSE-ENGINE HOUSE AND WATER WHEEL 30 METRES TO WEST OF CARHART FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Breock
National Grid Reference:
SW 95650 73104

Details

ST BREOCK SW 97 SE 3/42 Barn with horse-engine house and water wheel 30 metres to west of Carhart Farmhouse

II

Barn with water wheel and horse-engine house. Circa early C19 with horse-engine house added slightly later and water wheel added in 1848. Stone rubble. Slate roof with hipped ends with rag slate roof with hipped end to right. Plan: Barn originally probably of overal 'L' shaped plan with shippons on ground floor and threshing floor and hay loft on first floor. A horse-engine house was added to rear left in circa early C19 and an overshot water wheel was added in an outshot on the left hand side in 1848. Exterior: Two storeys with brick segmental arches to the openings. Asymmetrically placed plank doors flanked by window openings on ground floor with 4-window openings on first and plank door near angle of two ranges. Interior: The horse-engine house appears to retain part of the original timber framing for the machinery including the original central timber post. The water wheel on the left hand side was manufactured by Oatey of Wadebridge and has a date on the wheel, 1848. The hybrid overshot wheel retains its timber buckets and is over 20 feet in diameter.

Listing NGR: SW9565073104

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
67675
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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