Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse
LOWER BOSVARREN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328398
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER BOSVARREN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328398
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER BOSVARREN FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER BOSVARREN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 75692 30014
Details
SW 73 SE CONSTANTINE
6/29 Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C17, extended in circa early and mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Slurried scantle slate roofs with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. The front range has dressed granite gable end stacks with dripcourses. Plan: The circa early to mid C17 house is the 2 room and through passage plan front range. Both rooms are heated from gable end stacks, the right hand room is the larger but the partition on the lower left side of the passage has been removed making the 2 rooms about equal size. In circa early C19 a shallow unheated parallel range was added at the back which at the right end was incorporated into the rear wing added in circa mid C19. The rear wing comprises a room over an outbuilding and extends into the integral range of farm buildings qv at the back. Exterior: 2-storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window range. C19 2-light horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars except for the first floor right which has a later C19 4- pane sash. The first floor windows have granite lintels and C17 chamfered granite cills, the right hand with stoolings for mullions. The 2 ground floor windows have their C17 chamfered granite frames, the right hand with stoolings for 2 mullions, the left hand window's lintel has been replaced with an unchamfered lintel. Doorway to left of centre has a C17 chamfered granite 3-centred arch frame with long pyramid stops and a late C19 glazed and panelled door. The right hand elevation, the outer side of the rear wing has a circa mid C19 12-pane sash on the first floor and a late C19 2-light casement below. To the right the wall at the end of the rear wing projects. The rear elevation has late C19 2-light casements and the inner face of the rear wing has a late C19 12-pane sash on the first floor above a wide doorway on the ground floor with a long granite lintel. Interior: Both front rooms in the main range have their fireplaces blocked by C20 fireplaces and the floors above are supported on exposed soft wood joists. Bosvarren was in the small manor of Treworval. Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall. pages 169 to 171
Listing NGR: SW7569230014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall, (1937), 169-171
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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