Description

HELSTON

SW6427 TORLEVEN ROAD 631-1/4/228 (East side) 22/05/72 St Elvan Farmhouse and attached forecourt walls (Formerly Listed as: TORLEVEN ROAD St Elvan Farmhouse and attached farm buildings)

GV II

Farmhouse. 1840, replacing older house. For John Rogers. Killas rubble with granite sills and lintels except for rendered end wall on right; grouted scantle slate roof; external brick end stacks and lateral stack; mostly cast-iron ogee gutters and fascia boards with brackets. L-shaped single-depth plan with axial passage in front of left and kitchen and small pantry in front at far left; service wing at right-angles and projecting in front. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front plus 1-window return of service wing on the left. Original windows. 16-pane hornless sashes to front and central doorway with 4-panel door; remains of formerly glazed porch. Rear has 16-pane sash over 12-pane sash on left; then 2-light inward-opening casements with horizontal panes, some irregular composite and leaded; a round-arched stair window with intersecting glazing bars to head over glazed and panelled door, and on right of large stack a projection which is a cupboard for the kitchen, in front of which is a flagged floor over a well. 2-window-range farm entrance front has sashes with glazing bars and pantry window with horizontal glazing bars and some random leaded panes; central doorway with 4-panel top-glazed door under right-hand window. INTERIOR: original partitions, floors and roof structure, panelled doors, including one C18 reused 2-panel door; straight-flight staircase with turned newels, ramped handrails and stick balusters to landing. In the breakfast room is an original corner cupboard with shell head and round-arched pair of glazed doors with thin glazing bars. (Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: National Trust: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SW6398227406

External Links

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