Description

ST GORAN
SX 04 SW
3/76 Polgorran including attached
- garden wall, cottage, coach house
and stable

II

Vicarage including attached service buildings; now two houses, with attached garden
wall, coach house and stable. Circa mid C18, with alterations and additions of early
and late C19; C20 alterations. Rendered slatestone rubble. Hipped concrete tiled
roof. Stacks to sides with brick shafts. The attached service cottage is in stone
rubble; asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, and axial stack with
brick shaft. The coach house attached to the cottage is in slatestone rubble with
half-hipped slate roof with ridge tiles. The attached garden wall is in rendered
stone rubble with slate capping.
Plan: The vicarage is of double depth plan; there are two principal rooms on the
garden front, and the entrance to entrance hall and stair hall is at the right side,
with a further room to rear left. The garden wall is attached to front right, and
extends in an arc for about 30 metres. Attached to rear right of the house is the
service cottage, of 2-room plan, with each room heated from a back-to-back fireplace
from the axial stack. At the rear of the cottage there is an attached coach house
and stable, with coach house to left and stable to right, with lofts over.
Exterior: 2 storeys; the garden front is a symmetrical 2-window facade. At first
floor there are two C19 12-pane sashes. At ground floor there is a large C19 16-pane
sash and C19 French window. Set back to right is the entrance hall block, with C19
half-glazed door and C19 16-pane sash at first floor. The left side of the house has
C19 French window with margin glazing and C19 16-pane sash at first floor. The wall
is attached at the front right of the house, with a pentice hood over a small area at
the front right; there is a doorway with 6-panelled door. The hall is about 2 metres
high and extends for about 15 metres to a wooden gate leading to the garden; the wall
is extended for about another 15 metres.
The right side of the house has two C19 20-pane sashes at first floor with central
round-arched C19 12-pane sash. Ground floor has a small C19 16-pane sash to left,
C19 6-panelled door and small circular window with splayed glazing bars; C19 20-pane
sash to right. The rear of the house has C19 16-pane sash at ground and first floor
to right; to left a large C19 20-pane sash lighting the stair and a lunette with
splayed glazing bars.
There is a small single storey linking block between the house and the attached
service cottage. The cottage is 2-storey, a 3-window front; first floor has three
C19 16-pane sashes. Ground floor has C20 window and door, C19 4-light 8-pane
casement and C19 16-pane sash. The rear of the cottage has single storey lean-to and
C20 window. At the right end, which is blind, there is an attached screes wall with
slate coping and plank door. The coach house and stable is attached to right; 2-
storey, with the coach house to left an the stable to right, projecting to front
right. The coach house has a wide plank double doors with timber lintel and 2-light
window above with shutters with strap hinges. At ground and first floor to right a
C19 2-light 10-pane casement with L hinges. The stable has 12-pane window with
shutters and toplight at ground floor, with plank door to right.
Interior: Not inspected, but may retain good features of the C18 and C19, such as
doors, staircase and good joinery details.

Listing NGR: SW9955042412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430548

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)