Point Neptune
POINT NEPTUNE, READYMONEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389432
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Point Neptune
- Statutory Address:
- POINT NEPTUNE, READYMONEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389432
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Point Neptune
- Statutory Address 1:
- POINT NEPTUNE, READYMONEY ROAD
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:
- POINT NEPTUNE, READYMONEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 11896 51089
Details
FOWEY
868/0/10166 READYMONEY ROAD
18-SEP-01 Point Neptune,
II
House. Circa mid C19; extended and remodelled 1864 for William Rashleigh of Menabilly; extended again later C19; altered C20. Coursed slate with granite dressings. Low-pitched hipped slate roofs with deep bracketed eaves. Slate stacks with moulded granite caps and louvred yellow clay pots. Original mid C19 house is of painted brick, partly slate-hung and with low-pitched slate roof with deep eaves and verges to gable ends.
PLAN: Smaller circa mid C19 house to NE retained as service wing to 1864 remodelling and extensions, which comprise large L-shaped plan range to SW, its entrance front to west, to which was added an extension to the south and a wing to the SE, and in between a single-storey hall was created with a drawing room projecting at the front [S]; all in the Victorian Italianate villa style.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3-storeys. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay west front with narrow projecting central bay, the bracketed eaves raised as gables at centre; granite stringcourses and granite 2-light round-headed windows with keystones, imposts and continuous cills, ground floor windows have straight heads; sashes without glazing bars; central round-headed doorway with keyblock and imposts, traceried fanlight and panelled door; later bay set back on right. South front 1:2:1 bays with tall 2-storey wings left and right and single-storey range projecting at centre , all with rusticated granite quoins, stringcourses, 2-light round-headed windows with colonnettes and continuous impost courses and cill courses, heavily battered plinth and deep bracketed eaves; the main 3-storey range set back at centre; sash windows without glazing bars. East side, tall SE wing on left and circa mid C19 original house on right, partly slate-hung and with 12-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: Complete with C19 joinery, including panelled doors and window shutters; moulded ceiling cornices and bolection chimneypieces. Central single-storey hall has fluted Roman Doric colonnade with an entablature supporting a glazed segmental vault above. Principal staircase replaced. First floor not inspected.
A good example of a Victorian Italianate villa overlooking the River Fowey estuary.
Listing NGR: SX1189651089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488091
- 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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