Description

HELSTON

SW62NW PENROSE HILL
631-1/1/208 Carpenter's shop 100 metres
south-west of Penrose Manor House

GV II

Carpenter's shop. Pre-1833. For John Rogers. Killas rubble
with granite lintels over 3 openings; grouted scantle slate
roof; brick stack on left; slate verges and weather-boarded
gables with ladder doors, slatted gates and rollers. Single
storey; regular 6-window range. Original horizontal-sliding
sashes with vertical glazing bars and random panes. C20 timber
store with low-pitched lean-to roof low down in front. Rear
has wide window, with 3 fixed lights and similar details to
front windows, on the right and central 2-light window with
6-pane light on its left and rare window type with horizontal
glazing bars and some random leaded panes on its right.
INTERIOR: shouldered, tenoned king-post roof structure, a
2-panel door with H hinges, a shallow round-arched keeping
place, the remains of a pot-bellied stove and counter-balanced
loft ladder.
(Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: National Trust: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SW6407225662

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490881

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6