Oversteps the Briar
OVERSTEPS, MILL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329067
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oversteps the Briar
- Statutory Address:
- OVERSTEPS, MILL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329067
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oversteps the Briar
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVERSTEPS, MILL HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE BRIAR, MILL HILL
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:
- OVERSTEPS, MILL HILL
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRIAR, MILL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2069650948
Details
In the entry for
6/72 LANSALLOS C.P.
MILL HILL, POLPERRO
OVERSTEPS AND THE
BRIAR
The address shall be amended to read
MILL HILL, POLPERRO
OVERSTEPS AND THE
BRIG
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LANSALLOS MILL HILL, Polperro
SX 2050-2150
6/72 Oversteps and The Briar
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GV II
2 houses. Circa early C18 extended to rear in circa mid C19. Front elevation
remodelled in circa mid C19. Painted and rendered stone rubble with asbestos slate
roof to front slope and rag slate roof to rear slope. Projecting truncated stone
rubble chimney stack in higher gable end. Rendered brick chimney stack in lower
gable end and in gable end of rear projecting wing. Projecting stone rubble rear
lateral hall stack with brick shaft.
Appears to have been a 3-room plan house originally with its back built into the
hillside and with gable end stacks and front lateral hall stack, and possibly a cross
passage. In circa mid C19 it was subdivided into 2 houses, heightened to 3 storeys,
re-orientated with the higher rear level becoming the front and a wing added at the
rear (original front) of the lower level. Alternatively it could simply be a pair of
2-storey houses built over cellars facing lower ground level at rear.
Mill Hill elevation of 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor with 2
C19 4-pane sashes, C19 doorcase with panelled pilasters and part glazed panelled
door. Flat hood. C19 4-pane sash to right. In right-hand range comprising The
Briar, part glazed C20 door and C20 casement with glazing bars, both beneath timber
lintels. First floor with three 4-pane sashes is gabled half-dormers. Rear
elevation asymmetrical with regular 3-storey wing at lower left-hand end.
Interior with probably C18 ceiling beams. The Briar and upper floor of Oversteps
not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX2069650948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61536
- 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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