Wilkey Down
WILKEY DOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328041
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wilkey Down
- Statutory Address:
- WILKEY DOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328041
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wilkey Down
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILKEY DOWN
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:
- WILKEY DOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Werrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3277190088
Details
WERRINGTON
SX 39 SW
5/287 Wilkey Down
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GV II
Farmhouse. Circa early C19 extended in circa mid to late C19. Stone rubble. Slate
roof with 2 hipped ends to front of earlier range and gable ends to front and rear of
later range on left. Brick axial and side lateral stacks.
Plan: Double depth range to earlier range on right with central entrance flanked by
two principal rooms heated by axial stacks. Large kitchen to rear right. The stair,
which is to rear left, may be a result of the remodelling when the left hand range
was added in circa mid to late C19. This left hand range is on 2-room double depth
plan with a second entrance leading into a passage on the right and a principal room
to front left, heated by a side lateral stack, with a further room beyond to rear.
Exterior: Two storeys. 2-3 window front. The symmetrical 3-window front to the
earlier right hand range has a central timber and rendered porch with flat roof and
C19 panelled door within. Two C19 12-pane sashes on ground floor and three above
with dressed slate segmental arches. To left, the higher gabled end to the circa mid
to late C19 extension; two storeys and attic with brick segmentai arches to the
openings. Part glazed plank door to right and C19 six over nine-pane sash. Two C19
12-pane sashes on first floor and 1-light window to attic.
Interior: Largely complete with mid and late C19 joinery and carpentry details.
Wilkey Down, previously knowm as Old Polapit Tamar, was a seat of the Coode family
prior to the erection of Polapit Tamar (qv) in 1866.
Listing NGR: SX3277190088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68176
- 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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