Penpoll Farmhouse
PENPOLL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329024
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Penpoll Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PENPOLL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329024
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Penpoll Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENPOLL 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:
- PENPOLL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 83784 42188
Details
SW 84 SW KEA
2/116 Penpoll Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Circa mid C18. Rubble, cob and brick to first floor of rear wing and corrugated iron cladding to front. Scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys over gable ends with external breast to left (east). Plan of 2 rooms both with large but partly blocked hearths. Hall/kitchen probably in right-hand room. Central stair hall between. Service wing added to rear of right- hand room circa early-mid C19 consisting of large kitchen to right and small pantry, left, to rear of stair. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window north front with doorway and window over slightly off-centre to right. C20 top-glazed door. Wider ground floor right-hand window opening has original 24-pane 2-light: casement with wide glazing bars with internal ovolo-mouldings. Other windows are circa late C19 early C20 8-pane 2-light casements. Rear wing has circa late C19 casements of different sizes but original wooden lattice ventilator survives to larder. Interior of C18 part is virtually complete with 2-panel doors with fielded panels and HL hinges, pine muntin and plank partitions and a particularly interesting closed-string dog-leg stair with column on vase turned baluster, ramped moulded handrail, tuned newel caps and segmental arch under landing balustrade with turned pendants under newels. An interesting C18 house particularly notable for its surviving C18 features.
Listing NGR: SW8378442188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63403
- 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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