Whalesborough Farmhouse
WHALESBOROUGH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328537
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Whalesborough Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHALESBOROUGH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328537
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Whalesborough Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHALESBOROUGH 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:
- WHALESBOROUGH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marhamchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 21161 03936
Details
SS 20 SW
7/52
MARHAMCHURCH
Whalesborough Farmhouse
GII
Farmhouse and cottage,formerly farmhouse.Probably C17 to early C18,remodelled in late C18 to early C19,some C20 alterations.Stone rubble,whitewashed and rendered to front and rear right,slate roof with gable ends,projecting gable end stacks with shafts of local brick,C17/18 crested ridge tiles.Single depth range has projecting wings to rear right and rear left forming U plan.Stone wall joining rear wings completes rear courtyard plan.Rear right wing now separate cottage.Two storeys.Three window symmetrical front with central entrance through C20 glazed porch.Ground floor windows two circa early C19 timber sashes,twelve panes above twelve panes.First floor windows three circa late C19 timber casements,middle window has four panes per light,outer windows have glazing bars missing.Lean-tos adjoin left and right gable ends.Interior:Main range retains doors with two fielded panels.Rear left wing has collar rafter roof with threaded purlins,collars halved and pegged.Roof of main range similar,two tiers of threaded purlins.C20 alterations and additions to rear right wing,now separate cottage.Whalesborough is a Domesday manor.It passed from the Whalesborough family to the Trevelyans in 1460.Sir John Trevelyan was one of the feoffees to the deed of endowment of Week St Mary Grammar School(q.v.Old College,Week St Mary).
Listing NGR: SS2116103936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64864
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Old Cornwall in Autumn, Vol. 8, (1977), 421-424
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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