Glasshouse and Packing Shed at Rocky Hill Farm
GLASSHOUSE AND PACKING SHED AT ROCKY HILL FARM, ROCKY HILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376773
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Glasshouse and Packing Shed at Rocky Hill Farm
- Statutory Address:
- GLASSHOUSE AND PACKING SHED AT ROCKY HILL FARM, ROCKY HILL LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376773
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Glasshouse and Packing Shed at Rocky Hill Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLASSHOUSE AND PACKING SHED AT ROCKY HILL FARM, ROCKY HILL LANE
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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.
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:
- GLASSHOUSE AND PACKING SHED AT ROCKY HILL FARM, ROCKY HILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary's
- National Grid Reference:
- SV9121911071
Details
SV 91 SW
1358/4/10006
ST MARY'S
ROCKY HILL LANE
Glasshouse and Picking Shed at Rocky Hill Farm
II
Flower packing and potting shed with glasshouse to south. Dates from after 1867 (potting shed built between 1880 and 1906 O.S. maps), and associated with William Trevellick - reputedly the first Scillonian flower exporter to Covent Garden. Coursed granite rubble with corrugated iron cladding to north gable end; asbestos sheet gabled roof to packing shed, with gabled roof to glasshouse set on low granite rubble walls. Packing shed is part-glazed on granite plinth to north elevation; wide doorway with timber door, 3-light fixed pane window to left-hand side, small 4-light fixed pane window to right-hand side. Glasshouse has slender timber frame, all painted to exterior with mullions to glazed panels.
INTERIOR: packing and potting shed has softwood internal frame and trusses, with benches to sides of wreck timber. Glasshouse has old benches to sides, nailed collars to roof and tying room in NW corner (adjacent to doorway into packing shed) with internal bench and partition walls comprising fixed pane windows over horizontal weatherboarding. Old plank doors with wrought-iron latches. Easily the most complete and impressive example of its type on the Scillies. The flower industry, introduced to the islands by Augustus Smith as part of his mid C19 restructuring of the islands' economy, became a vitally important part of the Scillies economy. The glasshouse features in the Gibson photographic collection of Victorian prints: it belonged to William Trevellick, reputed to have been the first Scillonian to have sent flowers (in a hatbox) to Covent Garden in 1867.
Listing NGR: SV9121911071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469059
- 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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