Burraton Farmhouse

BURRATON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329380
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Burraton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BURRATON FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329380
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Burraton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BURRATON FARMHOUSE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BURRATON FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Dominick
National Grid Reference:
SX 41108 67298

Details

ST DOMINICK SX 46 NW 4/242 Burraton Farmhouse II Farmhouse, now two houses. Circa mid C17, with C19 and later alterations. Slatestone rubble, rendered at the front and sides. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles, gable end to right and hipped to left. Gable end stack to right and 2 rear lateral stacks to left, all rebuilt in C20. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan, with the lower end room to right, heated from a gable end stack. The hall is to left, heated from a rear lateral stack and the inner room to end left, heated from a rear lateral stack. Circa later C17, a 2- storey gabled bay was added to the front of the hall. There is an outshut of single storey at the rear of the passage and the lower end room, extended as far as the hall stack and originally used as a dairy. In circa late C19, the higher end was rebuilt and the ceiling level in the hall raised, re-using original beams. The higher end room is now used as a separate house, with a porch added in the angle to the hall bay. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 4-window front, with 2-storey gabled hall bay, and passage and lower end room to right. All windows are C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage has C20 door with pitched slate hood. C20 porch set in the angle to the hall bay to left. At the left end, a C20 casement at ground and first floor. The rear has single storey outshut to left. Interior: The hall has 2 large chamfered beams with run-out stops. Rear lateral fireplace rebuilt in C20. The roof over the lower end room has 3 early trusses remaining, with trenched purlins, principal rafters halved and pegged at the apex, dovetailed and cambered collars. Roof over the higher end not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX4110867298

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
60948
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.

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