NANCE FARMHOUSE

NANCE FARMHOUSE, CHURCHTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328148
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: NANCE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: NANCE FARMHOUSE, CHURCHTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328148
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: NANCE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NANCE FARMHOUSE, CHURCHTOWN ROAD

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:: NANCE FARMHOUSE, CHURCHTOWN ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Illogan
National Grid Reference:: SW 66936 44321

Details

ILLOGAN CHURCHTOWN ROAD SW 64 SE (north side, off) 5/188 Churchtown 1.12.51 Nance Farmhouse

II* Dower house, now farmhouse. Earlier C18 and earlier, slightly altered. Sandstone ashlar facade, otherwise uncoursed sandstone rubble with granite quoins, scantle slate roof. Double-pile plan formed by 2 single-depth ranges of different builds, the later added to and covering most of the front of the earlier. The south front, facing into higher ground, is architecturally 2-storeyed over a basement which is actually at ground level, and a symmetrical 5-bay composition in classical style, with raised quoins; the central entrance, approached by a bridge over the basement area, has a doorway with a 6-panelled door and Gibbs surround in low relief, with a prominent keystone and a pediment, the basement has a doorway beneath the bridge and 4 square windows with replaced 4-pane sashes, the ground floor has tall 12-pane sashed windows, and the 1st floor has square 6-pane sashes (all these with thick glazing bars); and all these windows have flat-arched heads with raised pendent keystones. Hipped roof to the front range with projecting eaves, and extruded side-wall chimney stacks finished with modern brick. Lean-to addition at left end. The earlier rear range is of 2 storeys with attics, and is longer (with a 6th bay to the west); the left (eastern) half has a doorway in the 3rd bay, two 12-pane sashed windows to the left and 4 above, a reduced window to the right, inserted garage doors in the right-hand half and irregular fenestration including a small horizontal-sliding sash window beneath the eaves, and a dormer window. Interior: the front range contains an exceptionally fine C18 staircase in an open well from the basement to the 1st floor and a very unusual flying flight to the attic, with bolection moulded soffits to the steps, an open string, scrolled brackets, columnar newels, 2 twisted and turned balusters per tread, and a ramped moulded handrail; the basement has a room in the rear range (the "apostles room") with 11 painted panels of the apostles, and in the front range a wide segmental-arched fireplace at the west end and a rectangular fireplace at the east end divided to make a cloam oven; the ground floor of the front range has doorways with C18 pedimented architraves with pulvinated friezes and dentils, and a drawing room with fine contemporary decoration including a fireplace with shouldered surrround and swan-neck pedimented overmantel panel, shouldered architraves to 4 doorways (that to the right of the fireplace containing a coved cupboard with fluted sides and scalloped coving), moulded plaster cornice and rococo ceiling decoration; and a small dining room to the east decorated in similar style. History: said to have been built for a daughter of the Basset family of Tehidy, wife of John Collins, Rector of of Illogan.

Listing NGR: SW6693644321

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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.