Jetwells
JETWELLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328093
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Jetwells
- Statutory Address:
- JETWELLS
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- Date:
- 2005-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/14132/34
- Rights:
- © Mr Roger Norman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328093
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Jetwells
- Statutory Address 1:
- JETWELLS
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:
- JETWELLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0939682906
Details
CAMELFORD
SX 08 SE
4/28 Jetwells
-
17.12.62
II
Large single storey house. Circa 1815. Built for Charles Carpenter. Stuccoed stone
rubble. Bitumen coated rag slate roof with hipped ends and deep overhanging eaves.
Rendered moulded stacks.
Plan : Double depth plan with entrance to right of centre; wide cross passage with
wide corridor running at right angles on left dividing 2 large reception rooms on
front left from bedrooms on rear left. Service rooms on right hand side of house and
in wing which is set back on right.
Single storey with cellar; the attic on right is possibly a later insertion.
Asymmetrical front elevation with main house set forward on left and entrance in
angle, where service range is set back on right. Doric porch with flat entablature
and wide C19 door to left, asymmetrical 5-window front; small triangular early C19
window on far left, early C19, 8 over 12 pane sash and large segmented bay on right
with 2 early C19 tall 8 over 12 pane sashes, and C20 window to right of bay.
The left hand garden front is almost symmetrical with a central bay lit by a tall
early C19 sash window with semi-circular head and intersecting glazing bars. 8 over
12 pane sash to left and French window remodelled in C20 to right.
Interior largely complete although some of the partitions have been altered in the
later C19. Wide entrance passage with 3-bay groin vaulted roof. 3 doors on either
side of passage retaining doors and doorcases, the far door on right with a fanlight.
Blocked arch to rear. Reception room to left has a moulded early C19 cornice and a
reproduction bolection moulded chimneypiece. Room on far left with ornate early C19
plaster cornice and C20 fireplace.
House bequeathed by Charles Carpenter to his nephew, a Mr Cresswell. Later sold to
Admiral Dym.
A most unusual and particularly early example of a single storey house with high
quality detailing.
Polsue, J. Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall Volume III.
Maclean, Sir John Parochial and Family HIstory of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the
County of Cornwall 1870
Listing NGR: SX0939682906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68473
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)
Maclean, J, Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall, (1879)
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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