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Department of the Environment
LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR
HISTORIC
INTEREST
DISTRICT OF KERRIER
PARISH OF STITHIANS
CORNWALL
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/239
Boundary Stone at SW747357
GV
II
Boundary stone. Circa early C19. Round headed
rectangular on plan dressed granite monolith inscribed with 1 on
its face.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/429
Footbridge at SW 731375
Footbridge over stream. Circa early C19.
Granite rubble with granite monolithic lintels. Wrought iron
handrail. Single span bridge of simple lintelled construction.
Handrails are carried on simple iron stanchions. No parapet.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS
2/240
GV
II
Guide post. Circa early C19. Dressed granite
monolith with flat head. Probably square on plan, set diagonally
into a stone wall, (Cornish hedge) so that two of its sides face
the road. These sides have incised inscriptions.
Left hand side inscription
KENNALL
MILLS
&Co
Right hand side inscription
HELSTON
There are hand pointers under both
inscriptions.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/241
Guide post at SW735373
II
Guide post. Circe early C20. Manufactured by
Oatley and Martyn Ltd Wadebridge. Cast iron. Round on plan shaft
with 3 adjustable pointers over a moulded cornice and surmounted
by a moulded spike headed finial. Square ended pointers have
embossed inscriptions.
Left hand pointer;
PENHALVEAN 2
REDRUTH 5
Middle pointer;
PERRANWELL 3 ½
PENRYN 4 ¼
TRURO 8 ½
Right hand pointer;
GWENNAP 2
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/242
Milestone at SW705384
GV
II
Milestone. Circa early C19. dressed granite
monolith. Rectangular on plan. Post has pointed head and incised
inscription to side facing road:
REDRUTH
2 ¼
CARN
MENELLIS
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/243
Milestone at SW741374
II
Milestone. Circa early C19. Round headed
pointed granite monolith with incised inscription FROM TRURO 8
MILES. Ordnance survey bench mark under
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/244
Seureaugh Mill and barn immediately to the west (previously listed
as Sewrah Mill and outhouse to west)
17.1.80 II
Mill and detached granary/barn. Probably late
C18 or early C19 mill
remodelled circa late C19. Circa early C19
barn. Granite rubble walls with
granite dressings. Roof of mill fallen, hipped
on the left, gable end adjoining
cottages on the right. Roof of the barn has few
scantle slates, half hipped.
Plan;
Rectangular mill with machinery intact but decaying, overshot
wheel in
Wheel pit on the left and left of the wheel pit
and 2 storey granary/bank barn
With stone steps on its right hand side. There
are central opposing loading
and winnowing doorways. Adjoining in front of
the left hand side of the barn
is a single storey range of 4 stables or pig
stys.
Exterior: 2
storeys. Both barn and mill have symmetrical 2 window fronts with
Central doorways. The barn is lower and has
first floor loading doorway. Mill
Has pane window visible to ground floor right
of mill. The iron waterwheel
has its central hub and outer rim.
Interior: Mill
has its original floors and machinery. The machinery has iron
wheels with wooden teeth. There is a sack hoist
and an auger for filling
sacks. The mill stones were hidden by falling
debris at the time of the survey.
[These buildings are
presently undergoing restoration with Listed Building
consent and Planning
Permission granted for the works.]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/245
Tregonning Mill
(Formerly listed as Tregonning Mill with adjoining cottages)
II
Miller’s houses, mill and adjoining
outbuildings. Circa early-mid C19.
Granite walls with granite dressings. Mill and
outbuildings have grouted
scantle slate roofs with gable ends, house
roofs are replaced with asbestos
slate. Brick chimneys over the gable ends and
over party wall of the houses.
Left hand chimney rises above taller gable of
integral mill.
Plan Double
depth plan houses; mill is same depth as houses and at the front
appears to be integral with the house on its
right. Outbuildings on the left are
hallower. Mill and part of the adjoining house
are probably the oldest
building,slightly later the house plan was
probably deepened; a little later
another house was added at the right hand end
and single storey outbuildings
were added at the left hand end. The mill was
probably heightened when the
first house was remodelled.. Both houses have 2
rooms at the front flanking
central cross passages and have stair and
service rooms at the rear. Breast
shot wheel and machinery survive.
Exterior; Mill
is 2 storeys plus attic floor; houses are 2 storeys and
Outbuildings are single storey. South east
front. Mill has two window front
with central doorway with loading doorway over.
The front was originally
symmetrical but left hand window opening was
enlarged to create a tall
doorway in the C19. Old divided ledged doors
and old windows. First floor left
hand window is possibly original 12 pane 2
light casement. Cast iron ogee
guttering under the eaves. There is a
corrugated iron clad dormer with
wooden hoisting boom formerly used to hoist
sacks of grain through a
doorway to be emptied into the hoppers built
into the attic floor. Houses have
similar symmetrical 3 window fronts with
central doorways. Right hand house
has blocked window over its doorway. This house
has an old ledged door and
circa late C19 horned sashes. Other house has
similar C20 windows.
Outbuildings (probably stables and wagon sheds)
have irregularly disposed
window and doorway openings with some late C19
windows and doors. Mill
wheel has iron hub and segments and wooden
spokes and buckets.
Interior; Mill
only inspected. The mill has C19 floors, roof structure and
machinery. There are two pairs of stones on the
first floor. The attic floor has
hoppers at either side of an axial working
floor. The mill was still working until
a few years ago and has well preserved
machinery.
[This mill has been
subsequently converted to a dwelling in the 1990’s. It is
believed that the
machinery has been mostly retained and enclosed in
transparent material.]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
2/246 Treweege
Barton Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Roughly coursed
rubble with granite dressings.
Dry Delabole slate roof sweeping lower at rear
with brick chimneys over the
Gable ends. Cast iron ogee section gutters.
Plan; Double
depth plan with wider kitchen/living room on left; parlour on the
right probably flanking a through passage
leading to stair hall between rear service rooms. At the rear
middle is a porch with integral washhouse and at the right hand
end is a circa mid C19 probably dairy with loft over.
Exterior;2
storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front with doorway
central to the fenestration. C20 door. Original 16 pane hornless
sashes on the left, otherwise horned copies. One window front of
lower C19 extension at far right.
Interior; not
inspected but probably has original carpentry and joinery.
SW73 NW STITHIANS
2/247
Barn and adjoining outbuilding
immediately West of Treweege Barton farmhouse.
GV
II
Bank barn with adjoining horse engine house,
cartshed and stables. Circa
mid C19.Granite rubble with granite dressings.
Scantle slate hipped roof on barn and semi circular ended roof to
horse engine house, ortherwise asbestos slate.
Plan; Long
rectangular barn built into bank at the rear and with opposing
loading/winnowing doorways to the loft/granary plus a semi
circular ended horse engine house at right angles to rear,
middle, and later C19 single storey range of cartsheds and stables
at left hand end.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Overall four window east front with symmetrical two
window front on the left with central doorways and wider slightly
irregular two window front on the right. Narrow doorway between
the two integral fronts. There is a steep flight of granite steps
to the loading doorway towards right. Original openings (2 partly
blocked) some old ledged doors, window shutters and some reused
sashes.
Interior; Not
inspected
[Planning permission and Listed Building Consent were granted
for conversion of these buildings to holiday let dwellings,
works not yet completed.]
STITHIANS
SW 73
NW
HENDRA
1532/2/248
United Methodist Free Church
GV
II*
Non conformist (United Methodist Free Church)
1865 date plaque. MATERIALS; Faced granite entrance front with
rock faced basement as plinth and rusticated granite dressings,
otherwise granite rubble to openings spanned by granite lintels;
dry Delabole slate roof with pedimented gable at front.
PLAN: Rectangular aisle less plan plus canted
organ loft over vestry to centre of the rear (ritual E end).
Entrance hall and pair of gallery staircases at the front, gallery
to 4 sides; school room in basement. C1900 small chapel built over
small trap-house and stable at right.
EXTERIOR: Complete and unaltered 2 storey
elevations over basement as plinth. Symmetrical 3 window N
entrance front with triangular pediment enclosing oculus with date
and rectangular panel with name; basement as plinth, mid floor
string, rusticated quoins and surrounds. Wide elliptically arched
central pilastered rusticated granite doorway with with spoked
fanlight over original pair of panelled doors. Original hornless
sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads under semi circular
arches to 1st floor and segmental arches over 9 pane
fixed lights to ground floor. 3 window range side elevations with
12 pane horned sashes and similar sashes at rear.
INTERIOR; Is fine and virtually unaltered;
moulded plaster ceiling cornices, ornate domed central rose with
acanthus detail and enriched proscenium arch on consoles; original
staircase to front entrance hall between vestry and basement;
gallery to 4 sides with oval ends, the painted panelled front
cantilevered out on shaped brackets and supported on slender
Tuscan columns in the basement. Unaltered vestry and small meeting
room at ritual east end.
FITTINGS; Original panelled box pews with
ramped ends; fine trefoil-plan painted rostrum over panelled base
and moulded cornices, the rostrum approached by quadrant on plan
open string staircases with turned balusters; bowed mahogany
communion rail on ornate spandrelled cast iron balusters; late
C19th tripartite piped organ, the centrepiece arched with pieced
spandrels and crested above the entablature; late C19th pews
replacing former loose (free) benches at the sides of the lower
level. Original fittings, including rostrum, also to schoolroom.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES; Original wrought iron
balustrades with ramped handrails; turned cast iron newels.
Penmennor is a very complete example of a larger chapel, with good
gallery, box pews and originally with loose benches to the side,
one of only 3 examples of larger galleried chapels with this
feature, the others being Porkellis (Grade II* and now redundant)
in Wendron Parish and Vogue Beloth (at Grade II*) at Illogan.
Dated 14th April
1999 Signed by authority of Secretary of
State
M
Parsons
Department for Culture Media and Sport
[Planning permission has
been granted for creation of a car park on part of
the field between the
Chapel and former caretakers cottage, with the proviso
that the existing car park
entrance be closed]
SW 73
NW STITHIANS
HENDRA
2/249 Gate piers,
walls, gates and railings to road frontage in front of United
Methodist Free Church
GV
II
Gate piers, walls gates and railings in front
of Methodist Chapel. Date stone
on chapel. Dressed granite and granite rubble.
Iron railings and gates. Square
on plan piers. There are two entrances; a wide
carriage entrance on the left
set back with concave quadrant on plan flanking
walls and a wide gateway
aligned with the doorway of the chapel. The
latter gateway is flanked by low
ashlar plinths and there are terminal piers at
either end. C20th railings are
possibly copied from original railings.
Principal piers have monolithic shafts and
moulded caps with squat pyramidal
heads. Railings have fleur de lys finials. On
the right, the rubble walls have
granite copings.
SW 73
NW STITHIANS
HENDRA
2/250
The Old Forge
GV
II
Blacksmiths house. Circa Mid C19. Granite
rubble with granite dressings.
Grouted slate half hipped roof with C20 brick
chimneys over side walls.
Plan; Double
depth plan with two front rooms flanking a central passage
landing to a large rear entrance hall and
stair. Left hand room is wider,
probably the original kitchen/living room with
back kitchen behind; right hand
room is probably original rear porch.
Exterior; 2
storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front with doorway
central to fenestration. Possibly original
panelled door with top pane of glass.
Circa late C19th or C20 6 pane horned sashes.
Rear is unspoiled and has
gable ended stone porch right of middle.
Possibly original 6 pane hornless
sashes to first floor openings, horned copy to
ground floor right, otherwise
C20 windows in original openings. Ground floor
openings have granite lintels,
first floor openings have segmental brick
arches.
Interior;
Where inspected has original carpentry and joinery, details
including
dog leg stair with stick balusters and turned
newels.
SW 73
NW STITHIANS
HENDRA
2/251
Hendra House
GV
II
House. Circa mid C19. Coursed granite rubble
with granite dressings. Dry
Delabole slate half hipped roof with pierced
crested clay ridge tiles. Rendered
brick chimneys over the side walls.
Plan; Double
depth plan with probably two rooms at the right flanking an
entrance hall leading to stair hall between the
service room. The right hand
front room is wider probably a kitchen/living
room.
Exterior; 2
storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window north north east front with
doorway and window over slightly left of
middle. C20 6 panel door with
overlight. Original 12 pane hornless sashes to
the first floor, horned copies to
ground floor.
Interior; Not
inspected
SW73 NW
STITHIANS HENDRA
2/252 Wesley
Chapel including walls gate piers, gates and railings at road
frontage. (Formerly listed as Wesleyan Chapel)
10.5.57
II
GV
Wesleyan Chapel and adjoining school room.
Datestone 1814. Stuccoed elevations. Dry Delabole slate roof with
pedimented gables at entrance front.
Plan: Overall L
shaped plan including later schoolroom. Chapel is a rectangular
aisle less plan with gallery on 4 sides. The entrance and stair
hall is at the east end and the rostrum is at the West (ritual
east) end. Large schoolroom adjoins the west end and this has a
heated wing at right angles to its right hand(north) side.
Exterior; 2
storey elevations. Symmetrical 4 window east entrance front with 2
wide elliptically arched doorways towards left and right. Each
doorway has its original 3 flush beaded panelled doors and
elliptical fanlight. IN front of the doorways is a tetrastyle
prostyle Tuscan porch with moulded entablature. The square column
like corners of the front Are broken forward; first floor windows
(probably Cira 1900) have arched lights and coloured glass to the
spandrels. There are moulded hoods on consoles over the windows
and the pediment and flanking ‘columns’ have moulded cornices. The
side walls have their original 16 pane hornless sashes (4 windows
to each side on 2 floors).
Schoolroom has a 3 window front (left hand
wall) facing the road and its opposite wall is a symmetrical two
window gable ended front with central doorway and 2 roundheaded
windows with coloured glass.
Interior: has all
its circa 1860’s fittings and features. There is a cantilevered
gallery carried on paired brackets over Tuscan columns. Box pews,
bow fronted rostrum.
Sources: An
inventory of Nonconformist Chapels by Christopher Snell, RCHM
[Converted to a carpet warehouse and subsequently to dwellings
in early C21]
SW 72 NW
STITHIANS HENDRA
2/253
Hendra Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Early C19. Roughly coursed granite
rubble with granite dressings. Fairly steep grouted scantle slate
roof sweeping low at rear. Brick chimneys over the gable ends.
Cast iron gutters with lions’ heads to those at front.
Plan: Double
depth plan with two similar sized rooms at the front with cranked
through passage between leading to stair hall, back kitchen left
hand room and pantry behind right hand room.
Exterior: 2
storeys. Nearly symmetrical three window south east front with
doorway central to fenestration. Old door with two bottom panels
and top panels later glazed. Circa late C19 4 pane hornless sashes
in orginal openings. Rear has its original ledged door and 16 pane
hornless sashes except for original casement window to pantry.
Interior: Not
inspected, but probably retains its original plan and structural
features.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS HENDRA
2/254
Hendra Cottage and Mabel’s Cottage
GV
II
Pair of cottages, possibly originally 1 house.
Datestone inscribed NME 1718 on
stone chimney. Granite rubble walls with
granite moorstone dressings. Left
hand cottage (Hendra Cottage) has grouted
scantle slate roof sweeping lower
at rear. C18 crested clay ridge tiles and cast
iron ogee section gutter, the
other cottage roof is replaced with asbestos
slate. External stone stack with
brick chimney over the right hand gable end.
Plan: Present
plan is probably a C19 remodelling and extension of the original
plan. Double depth plan with large room at the
front of each cottage and
entrances towards the middle. Service rooms in
old rear outshut behind
Hendra Cottage and in C20 remodelled outshut
behind Mabel’s Cottage.
Exterior: 2
storeys. Overall fairly regular 4 window north front with 2
doorways towards the middle. Hendra Cottage
has C20 door and circa C19
pane hornless sashes (also unspoiled at the
rear). Mabel’s cottage has wide opening with adjoining doorway and
window. C20 door and C20 12 pane sashes. The chimney is inscribed
on its right hand (gable ) side.
Interiors; Not
inspected.
[A
large cloam oven was found in Mabel’s Cottage when it was
renovated in the C20, whether this feature was retained is
unknown]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/255
Kennall Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Circa early or mid C19 extended
later C19. Roughly coursed granite rubble with granite dressings.
Dry Delabole slate hipped roofs. Brick chimneys over the side
walls and over former gable end of original kitchen with at rear
left towards rear. Cast iron ogee gutters.
Plan; Double
depth plan with 2 originally equal sized rooms at the front (left
hand room now deeper taking in former axial passage). Kitchen in
wing at right angles behind left hand room, stair hall behind
right hand room and pantry in wing at right angles behind stair.
Circa late C19 an l-room cottage was added behind the kitchen and
this has a lean to on its right hand side. Now one house.
Exterior: 2
storeys. Symmetrical 3 window south front with central doorway.
Old ledged door with over light. Circa late C19 two pane horned
sashes. Right hand side has original 12 pane hornless sashes and
original pantry window covered in zinc gauze. There is an original
16 pane sash in the left hand wall to the chamber over the
kitchen.
Interior; Not
inspected but has its original stair and most of its original
carpentry and joinery.
This farmhouse has an interesting unaltered
planned group of farm buildings qv.
[Several windows have been replaced in recent years with Listed
Building consent.]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/256
Cartsheds, stables and piggery at approximately from 10 metres
North of Kennall Farmhouse.
GV
II
Cartshed, stables and piggery. Circa mid C19.
Granite rubble with granite
dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof over
stables and piggery with ends
adjoining barn (qv) on the left and cartshed on
the right. Corrugated asbestos
half hipped roof over cartshed.
Plan: Overall
L shaped group with long stable and piggery range built into a
bank at the rear and an open fronted cartshed
at right angles in front of the
right hand end.
Exterior:
Single storey. South front has doorway to each of three stables or
Loose boxes on the left. Two pair of doorways
with ventilators over the
doorway,possible swill kitchen on the right.
Interior:
Not inspected
[These buildings were
converted to dwellings with Listed Building Consent in
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/257
Barn and horse engine house at approximately 100 metres west of
Kennall Farmhouse
GV
II
Barn and horse engine house. Circa mid C19.
Granite rubble with granite
dressings. Grouted scantle hipped roofs. Cast
iron ogee gutters.
Plan; L shaped
plan barn with short arm of the L projecting at right angles in
front of the right hand side and a canted horse
engine house projecting
behind the middle of the long arm of the L.
Right hand part of the barn is
built into a bank on the right. There are two
pairs of opposing
loading/winnowing doorways in the longer part
of the barn, a flight of stone
steps behind the right hand doorways and
another flight of stone steps
behind the far right hand side give access to
another loading doorway.
The groundfloor has wagon sheds under the
threshing floors and there are
stables or loose boxes and possibly an original
shippon in the right hand part.
First floor is a granary and fodder store.
Horse engine house has opposing
Doorways at the sides and slit windows in the
sides of the canted end.
Exterior: 2
storeys. Unaltered elevations with original door and window
openings. Many of the openings have their
original ledged doors and there
are barred windows with internal shutters.
There is one 16 pane 2 light
casement. Symmetrical 4 window east front has 5
doorw3ays to the ground
floor including wide wagon doorway with loading
doorways over, towards the
left and right. Left hand wagon doorway is
partly blocked.
Interior: Not
inspected, except for horse engine house which has no
machinery but original roof structure and beams
for carrying former
machinery.
[Also converted to
dwellings in late C20 with Listed Building Consent]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/258
Gate piers and flanking walls at approximately 260 metres south
west of Kennall Vale House
GV
II
Gate piers and flanking walls. Early C19.
Granite rubble walls with square
edged dressed granite copings and round headed
granite monolithic gate
piers. Wide gateway is flanked by square on
plan piers and concave quadrant
on plan walls.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/259
Kennall Vale Mill and Former millers house.
GV
II
Mill and millers house. Parts of mill and house
are probably C18, extended in
C19 and C20. Granite rubble walls with granite
dressings. House is rendered
and parts of mill are slurried or painted.
Grouted scantled and dry Delabole
roofs to taller mill buildings, except for some
asbestos slate to left hand cross
gable, and to lower range adjoining road,
otherwise replaced with corrugated
asbestos and there is corrugated iron or
asbestos over C20 additions. All roofs
have gable ends.
Plan: Large
irregular plan with long rectangular 2 storey and 3 storey mill
range at the rear with 2 adjoining wings
projecting in front of the right hand
side of the 3 storey part and at the far right
a formerly detached mill. Now
linked by C20 structure, gable end onto the
front. Adjoining at an obtuse
angle to the middle of the front of the left
hand mill is a lower probably store.
Adjoining in front of the three storey mill is
a former two room plan millers
House with central lobby or cross passage. At
its left hand end is an external
rubble stack and there is a C20 extension on
its right. There is a wheel pit
behind the left hand side of the mill and
possibly there is some machinery. An
intact leat runs parallel to the rear of the
mill and probably fed overshot
wheels.
Exterior: Two
storeys and three storeys. South east fronts. Mill has two storey
front on the left and three storey front with
two adjoining gable ended wings
projecting from the middle and right hand side
of the front. At far right is the
gable end of a two storey mill. There are some
old windows including
(towards left) an 18 pane sash with nine pane
fixed light over. Mill house has
symmetrical two window front with central
doorway. Possibly early C19 12
pane casements to first floor,later sashes
below. Ledged door.
Interior:
Not inspected but possibly there is some machinery.
SW 73 N
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/260
Office stables and wagon sheds immediately east of Kennall Mill.
GV
II
Office stables and wagon sheds. Circa mid late
C19 Granite rubble with
Granite dressings. Office has original scantle
slate roof with projecting eaves
and verges with shaped and pierced barge
boards. Wagon sheds have
corrugated iron roofs with rubble gable ends.
Plan; An
irregular single depth range; on the left hand cartshed with
integral
stables or loose boxes; in the middle a cranked
on plan open fronted wagon
shed and set back on the right a single cell
heated office.
Exterior;
Single storey. Stable block on left has original sliding planked
doors
and windows with shutters and the bottom and
top lights. Wagon shed has
central stone pier between two otherwise open
fronts. Office has doorway n
the left with original eight panel door with
fielded panels and overlight with
the word OFFICE in gilt letters and in the
middle of the right hand wall is the
original 12 pane hornless sash with lower half
boarded over.
Interior: Not
inspected.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/261
Bridge immediately South of Kennall Vale Mill.
GV
II
Road bridge over River Kennall. Probably C18
with C19 parapets. Four span
bridge of post and lintel construction. Low
granite monoliths supporting large
roughly hewn granite lintels. The parapets
above are built of C20 quarried
random granite rubble.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/262
Kennall Vale House, including adjoining garden walls, gate piers
and gates
GV
II*
Small country house adjoining including garden
walls and gate piers. Circa
1830. Stuccoed walls. Slurried scantle rood
hipped around square lead flat
and behind parapets to garden fronts and
entrance front. Stuccoed brick
chimneys, one chimney over rear wall of each
rear room. Rear wings have
low pitched roofs corrugated iron.
Plan; Double
depth plan with two fairly large reception rooms at the principal
Garden front (deeper principal parlour on
left). Kitchen behind the left hand
room; entrance hall behind right hand room
leading to central rear stair hall
and study, behind entrance hall. At the rear is
an original and complete
service courtyard flanked by two similar two
storey service wings whose
doorways are linked to the house by an open
lean to cloister. The service
wings have first floor loading doorways. At the
rear of the courtyard is a
high retaining wall with a central gateway to a
flight of stone steps down to
the courtyard and under the steps is an
integral dog kennel. The plan and
function of all the rooms is unaltered since
built.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Virtually complete elevations with original stuccoed
Features. With
high plinth, mid floor band with Vitruvian scroll, moulded
Parapet cornice and plain parapet; originally
doors and windows.
Symmetrical 1:1:1 bay south east garden front
with bowed bays at left and
right. Central bay has arched niche to each
floor. Nearly symmetrical 3
window north east entrance front has doorway
slightly right of Tuscan porch.
Windows are hornless sashes with thin glazing
bars. Ellipticaly arched
stair window and traveried head.
Interior; has
most of its original features including mahogany panelled doors;
moulded architraves with lions heads in the
corner blocks; open well stair
with mahogany handrail scrolled over the newel;
marble chimney pieces in
the front reception rooms; fine plasterwork
with trailing bands and a cross
vault over the junction between the axial and
cross passage. Service rooms
are also unaltered and were fuel stores and
pantries to the ground floor and
probably apple stores or servants quarters
above.
Parallel to the rear of the house is a high
rubble retaining wall with square
Edged granite copings. There is a narrow
gateway towards the left. The
gate piers are integral with the walls and rise
as square chamfered heads
above the walls. Small gateways have their
original wrought iron gates with
roundels to the lock rails, arched top rails,
ball and steeple finials and arrow
headed finials over the top rails. At the left
hand end of the garden the wall
returns at right angles to the front.
Kennall Vale house is one of the most
interesting and complete early C19
houses in this part of Cornwall. The rear
courtyard with its cloister and
service wing is particularly interesting.
SW 73 NW
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2/263
Lower Kennall Vale Mill
(formerly listed as Lower Kennall Vale Mill and stonebuilt leat
course)
17.1.80
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Water mill for grinding grain. Circa mid C19.
Granite rubble with granite
Dressings. Scantle slate roof (partly replaced
with corrugated asbestos)
hipped at the front, gable ends at the rear.
Louvered ventilator over the
ridge.
Plan;
Rectangular former grist mill with wheel pit for former overshot
wheel
on the right hand side. Later C19 extensions on
the left hand side. Hub of
waterwheel and internal machinery intact.
There is a large internal cast iron
gear wheel with wooden cogs; this wheel drives
a smaller cog at either end
from which there are drive shafts across the
mill building (within an
inaccessible basement) to drive a pair of
stones and other machinery near
the front of the mill, and to drive other
machinery including a grain cleaner
behind. The original machinery is in situ but
has been added to in the later
C19 and C20.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Simple unaltered elevations. Front has wide first
Floor window opening. There are doorways into
the left hand side and
a blocked doorway into the rear gable end of
the rear left hand extension.
Original rear gable end has a ground floor
window and loading doorways
to the first floor and the attic.
Interior;
Floors roof structure and fittings survive. The floors are on
several
Levels. Part of the ground floor is a basement
to house the axial drive shafts
(see plan). The attic floor is high up in the
roof space. There is a very
complex arrangement of ductings, hoppers and
both gear and belt driven
machinery. Roof structure has lapped dovetailed
struts.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/264
Mill at SW74883733
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Circa 1850.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar
rectangular
plan two storey blocks with original basements
to house gearing, and with
the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and
parts of the rim of the
waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water
from leat parallel to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window
East South East front. Tall central wheel it
opening flanked by two originally
identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and large
openings above. Part of right hand bay is
fallen.
Interior; not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is the last built and last used of a
group of six similar mills which
Survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/265
Mill at SW74903736
GV
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early mid
C19. Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar
rectangular
plan two storey blocks with original basements
to house gearing, and with
the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and
parts of the rim of the
waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water
from leat parallel to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window
East South East front. Tall central wheel it
opening flanked by two originally
identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and large
openings above. Part of right hand bay is
fallen.
Interior; not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is one of a group of six similar
mills which survive in the beautiful
Kennall Valley. This mill is the only one with
a gable end.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/266
Mill at SW74933738
GV
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar
rectangular
plan two storey blocks with original basements
to house gearing, and with
the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and
parts of the rim of the
waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water
from leat parallel to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window
East South East front. Tall central wheel it
opening flanked by two originally
identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and large
openings above. Part of right hand bay is
fallen.
Interior; not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is one of a group of six similar
mills which survive in the beautiful
Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/267
Mill at SW74983746
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing two
similar
rectangular plan two storey blocks which
originally had basements to house
gearing and millstones in the upper floors.
Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water from leat parallel
to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two
Window south east front. Tall central wheelpit
opening flanked by two
identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and
large opening above. Doorways into end walls.
Interior; Not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is one of a group of six similar
mills which survive in the beautiful
Kennall Valley
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/268
Mill at SW7503374
GV
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing 2
similar
rectangular plan two storey blocks which
originally had basements to house
gearing and millstones in the upper floors.
Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water from leat parallel
to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two
window south east front. Tall central wheelpit
opening flanked by two
Identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and
Large opening above. Doorways into end walls.
Interior; Not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is one of a group of six similar
mills which survive in the beautiful
Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NE
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
3/269
Mill at SW75043747
GV
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Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Roofless.
Plan;
Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing two
similar
rectangular plan two storey blocks which
originally had basements to house
gearing and millstones in the upper floors.
Built into bank at rear and
originally powered by water from leat parallel
to the rear.
Exterior; Two
storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two
window south east front. Tall central wheelpit
opening flanked by two
identical one window fronts. Each front has
small basement opening and
large opening above. Doorways into end walls.
Interior; Not
inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones.
This mill is one of a group of six similar
mills which survive in the beautiful
Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NE
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
3/426
Bridge at SW75063747
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Road brigde over river Kennall. Circa 1812.
Built for Kennall Vale
Gunpowder Works. Granite rubble with some large
dressed granite
Monoliths.
Two span bridge with pointed cutwater upstream.
Simple lintelled
construction with high rubble parapets.
Built to give access to the gunpowder mills qv.
Higher up the valley and to the
Glume stove house, qv. lower down the valley.
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In the entry for item 3/270 the following
amendment should be made:
SW 73 NE
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE Ponsanooth
Kennall Vale House and
adjoining garden wall.
3/270 II
GV
House, possibly former account house for
Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Circa early C19 built in at least
three phases. Some coursed dressed granite, otherwise granite
rubble with granite dressings. Shallow brick arches over the
openings. Concrete tile hipped roofs. Rendered brick axial
chimneys to the rear.
Plan: Deep plan
built in several phases. There are two rooms at the entrance front
with entrance hall leading to stair hall between. Right hand room
is wider. The rear of the house has dressed granite (almost ashlar)
walls and is probably the original house which was later extended
at the front.
Exterior: Two
storeys. Largely unaltered regular elevations with some hornless
sashes. Nearly symmetrical short 3 window east front with doorway
and window over slightly left of centre; C19 6 panel door with
overlight. C20 doorcase with pediment. North front 1+3 windows
mainly 16 pane sashes but at left end a C20 20 pane sash at each
level, to left of straight joint in masonry. Far right a small
arched casement at low level. Slightly set back from façade at
right end a section of battlemented wall which runs across to the
solid rock face. West front has 16 pane sash at upper level. South
or garden front has four windows, some with original 16 pane
sashes; bay three at ground floor has late C20 bow window with 18
pane sash, taken to floor level, and immediately right a C20
glazed conservatory, approached through C20 glazed door.
Interior; partly
inspected; some enriched cornices, middle room on north front has
deep recess to elliptical arch at east end, and two arched
recesses to opposite end, panelled shutters to ground floor rooms,
stick stair.
Dated 11th November 1988.
SW 73 NE
STITHIANS KENNALL VALE, Ponsanooth
Glume Stove house and associated structures at
approximately 40 metres west of Kennall Vale House
3/271 II
GV
Glume stove buildings including chimney, boiler
house, drying house and associated structures. Killas and granite
rubble with granite dressings.
Plan; Complete
round chimney at right hand (east) and adjoining square on plan
probably boiler house which adjoins larger probably drying house,
both roofless and partly ruinous. The buildings are situated of
the steep slope of the Kennall Valley and there is a walled
platform in front.
Exterior; Single
storey. Left hand building has part of the front wall missing but
has the jambs of former openings; right hand building is set back
from the front and has a doorway left of middle. There is another
doorway in the right hand return wall with access from wide
doorway in high wall at far left.
This building was used to dry pellets of
gunpowder in preparatioin for storage. It is probably the most
complete example of its type in the south and west of England.
Source; Cornwall Archaeology Unit, Old County
Hall, Truro.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
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Church of St Stedian
10 7 57
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Parish church. Based on chancel probably C13,
otherwise C15. Restored in C18 and heavily restored in 1873.
Granite ashlar lower and south aisle, otherwise granite rubble
with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with granite
coped gable ends.
Plan;
Nave/chancel under one roof; C15 west tower; C15 north aisle; C19
north porch and C15 south aisle.
Exterior;
Complete C15, 3 stage embattled and pinnacled west tower except
for C19 tracery inserted to 3 light window over 4 centred arch
west doorway. Strings dividing stages and buttresses set back from
the corners. C19 clock faces to middle stage. Original 3 light
traceried louvered windows to upper stage. Apart from the tower
the church had all its windows replaced in the C19. In the north
wall are vestiges of a C18 flat arch. There is an ancient carved
stone fragment over the east window of the north aisle. In the
south wall is a C15 3 centred priests doorway and a C15 4 centred
doorway.
Interior; C15
five bay standard A (Pevsner) north arcade, with 2 centred arches;
C15 6 bay south arcade with square piers with engaged shafts and
squat four centred arches. The walls have been stripped of
plaster; the roofs are C19 scissor braced.
Note; reference has
subsequently been made to the significant differences between
some of the columns in the church and the capitols of some of
them.
SW 73 NW SITHIANS
STITHIANS
2/273
Cross at east end of Church of St Stedian
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Cross. Pre conquest. Tall granite wheel headed
monolith. On one face of the cross is a Latin cross in relief and
on the other face is the Crucifixion in relief. The cross is set
into a C20 square granite base (qv).
“This cross was resited from Sewrah Mill in
1910 by permission of Captain William Tremayne of Carclew “(qv).
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/274
Chest tomb at approximately 4 metres south of west end of Church
of St Stedian
GV
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Chest tomb. C18 or early C19. Granite ashlar
chest set on large dressed
granite base. Eroded freestone lid with
indecipherable inscription. Rectangular
on plan. The chest has a chamfered plinth.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/275
Chest tomb at approximately
5 metres south of Church of
St Stedian.
GV
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Chest tomb. C18. dressed granite monolithic
sides and lid. Rectangular on
plan. The chest has a chamfered plinth and
sides have panels with torus
moulded borders and hearts in relief. There
appears to be no inscription. A
plain panel at one end may have been fitted
with an inscribed slate.
SW73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/276 Martin
headstones at approximately 6 metres north west of Church of St
Stedian.
GV
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Two headstones, C18 and early C19. Headstone
with three sided top to A
Edmond, S. Martin died 1789 aged 69 and wife
Mary, died 1818 aged 84.
Headstone. Headstone with new head to B.
Edward Martin, died 1804 aged
52. Both headstones are granite monoliths
with inscribed slates inset.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/277 Bath
headstone at approximately 8 metres south of west of Church of St
Stedian.
GV
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Headstone. C18. To William Bath, died 1792 aged
59, also Jane his wife, died
1812 aged 77. Granite monolithic headstone with
rounded head and
rectangular inscribed slate inset.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/278 Francis
headstone at approximately
10
metres south east of Church of
St
Stedian.
GV
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Headstone. Early C18. To James, son of James
and Jane Francis. Died
February 7th 1818 aged 4 months.
Granite monolith with shaped head with
an inscribed slate inset on one side.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/279 Reed and
Hocker tomb at approximately 12 metres south of south doorway of
Church of St Stedian
GV
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Chest tomb. Early C19. To Thomas Reed of
Trevales (qv), died 1812 aged 77
and Thomas Hocker died 1855 aged 85. Granite
monolithic chamfered base,
granite monolithic sides with projecting
corners and granite monolithic lid with
moulded cornice. Rectangular on plan. The
inscription is on a round medallion
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/280 War memorial
at approximately 15 metres east of Church of St Stedian
GV
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War memorial. Circa 1918. To those who died in
the 1914-18 World War and
Later inscribed to those who died in the
1938-45 World War. Dressed
Granite octagonal plan base and Latin cross set
on a large stepped base with
canted front, the other sides (of what would
otherwise be an octagon) are
enclosed by semicircular on plan churchyard
wall behind. The cross itself has
a sword in relief at the front and the tapered
shaft stands on a bell shaped
base on a tall plinth.
[There are slate plaques let
into the surrounding wall either side of the cross
listing the names of
those killed from the Parish in each war.]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/281
Gate piers, gates and walls
flanking gateway at approximately 15 metres
east of Church of St Stedian.
GV
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Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway.
Circa early C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Wide
gateway piercing churchyard wall. Within the gateway on either
side of a flagged walk are stone settles and in the middle of the
walk is a coffin rest with rounded ends. Gate piers are square on
plan granite monoliths and there is an iron overthrow linking
their heads. Settles have dressed granite seats and low backs with
granite copings. Pair of original wrought iron gates have roundels
to the lock rail, round arched bracing below and form a segmental
arch with their top rails when closed. The closely set bars have
arrow headed finials. Overthrow forms a round arch with a lamp
bracket over the middle and there is a bifurcated scrolled detail.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/282
Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway at approximately 30
metres north west of Church of St Stedian
GV
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Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway.
Circa early C19. Granite rubble
with granite dressings. Wide gateway piercing
churchyard wall. Within the
gateway are shallow depth stone settles and
between the settles a
rectangular coffin rest. Gate piers are square
on plan granite monoliths with
rounded pyramidial heads. Settles have dressed
granite seats and low backs
with dressed granite copings. Coffin rest has
sloping sides. Pair of original
wrought iron gates have roundels to the lock
rail, round arched bracing below
and form segmental arch with their top rails
when closed. The closely set bars
have arrow headed finials.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/283
Vestry at approximately
50 metres south west
of Church of St Stedian
(formerly listed as Building in SW corner Churchyard)
10 7 75
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Vestry. Probably C18 incorporating medieval
fragments from the Church.
Granite rubble with granite dressings. Scantle
slate pyramidial roof.
Square single cell plan with doorway in the
east wall and window in the North
Wall.
Exterior;
Single storey. Thicker walls up to impost string. West entrance
front
has central doorway with squat two centred arch
or reused arch stones over.
Short granite coped return wall in front of the
left side. Right hand (north)
Wall has small window with reused C15
cinquefoil tracery.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/284
Churchyard walls to West, north and east of Church of St Stedian.
GV
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Churchyard walls. C18 and C19. Granite rubble
with dressed granite hog’s
back copings.
[Part of this wall
collapsed adjoining the school in 2004 and was rebuilt by
PCC in 2005]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/285
Gate piers and flanking
walls at road entrance to
the White Cottage (former
vicarage)
GV
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Gate piers and flanking walls. Probably early
C19. Granite ashlar walls and
rusticated granite piers with dressed granite
wall with granite coping at
the left hand (west) end and granite rubble
wall at the other end. Wide
gateway has square on plan piers linked by
short lengths of straight wall to
concave quadrant on plan walls with square on
plan terminal piers. On the
right is a narrower blocked gateway with
another pier on its right. The piers
have ramped pyramidal caps and the lower walls
have sloping copings.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHHIANS
2/287
Seven Stars Public House
GV
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Public house. Circa early C19. Dressed granite
front, otherwise rubble with
granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof with
axial valley between. Brick
chimneys over the gable ends.
Plan; Double
depth plan under two parallel roofs. Originally two rooms
at the front (some partitions removed in the
C20) flanking a central entrance
hall leading to a stair hall between large rear
service rooms.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Symmetrical three window west front with central
doorway. C20 door. Original 16 pane hornless
sashes to first floor left and
right, otherwise horned copies.
Interior; Some
alterations in the C20 but most of the original structure is
Intact and there are some original features
including and open well stair with
turned newels and stick balusters.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/288
Crellow House
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House. Circa early mid C19.Stuccoed. Grouted
scantle slate hipped roof with
Wide eaves over main part of the house,
replaced with asbestos slate over
former service wing. Stuccoed chimneys over the
side walls with C19
octagonal clay pots.
Plan; Main
house is a rectangular double depth plan with two reception
Rooms flanking a central hall leading to stair
hall between rear rooms.
Deep service wing adjoins at rear left hand
corner (now separate house).
Exterior; Two
storeys. Overall five window north front. To the right the
principal symmetrical three window front with
central doorway. Plinth,
moulded hoods on consoles(ground floor), mid
floor band and giant Doric
pilasters at the corners. Pairs of circa late
C19 early C20 French windows to
ground floor openings. Original overlight with
marginal panes. Circa late C19
or C20 four pane horned sashes to original
first floor openings. Rear has tall
original stair sash with glazing bars and
fanlight head.
Interior; Not
inspected except for stair hall which has original open well
string stair with stick balusters.
[Curious that the coach
house, an integral part of this dwelling, is not
mentioned in the listing]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS STTIHIANS
2/289
Guide post at SW735366
[Gribbas Corner]
Guide post. Circa early C20. Cast iron. Round
on plan post carrying three
adjustable pointers surmounted by a spike
headed finial. The pointers have
integral quadrant brackets, slightly rounded
ends and embossed inscriptions.
Left hand
pointer; HELSTON
8 ½
Middle
Pointer
MABE 3 ½
Right hand
pointer STITHIANS
CHURCH ½
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/290
Tretheague House including ice house, well, closet and walled
garden at rear.
GV
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Small country house including ice house, well,
closet and walled garden at
rear. Circa early C18. Rusticated granite
ashlar front, otherwise granite rubble
with granite and brick dressings. Dry Delabole
slate hipped roof behind
embattle parapet. Battlements are C20, possibly
there was originally a
moulded parapet cornice. Two tall brick
chimneys over each side wall.
Plan; Double
depth plan. Original plan intact except that a partition has been
Inserted left of the entrance to create a
central entrance hall beside former
Larger hall on the left; parlour on the right;
central rear entrance hall with parlour on its left, stair hall on
its right and service room and stair at far right. There is a
basement kitchen and vaulted wine cellars.
Exterior; Two
storeys plus attics over basement. Symmetrical five window east
north east principal front with central doorway approached by
flight of granite steps with probably original wrought iron
railings. Doorway has Gibbs surround and original panelled doors
with integral blind fanlight (now glazed). Windows are mostly
original 12 pane hornless sashes with wide glazing bars and much
original crown glass. There is one copy at the front. Rear has
original doors and several original windows including fanlight
head to stair window. Principal rear doorway is approached by a
granite bridge with its original wrought iron railings.
Interior; has
many features and is virtually unaltered throughout since C18.
Entrance hall has fine plaster ceiling with modillions in the
cornice and Ionic doorway between entrance hall and hall (now
front entrance hall). Stair hall part has open well open string
stair with three turned balusters per tread and a ramped handrail
wreathed over the newel and there is bolection moulding to the
wall panels and under the landing. There are two panels with eared
architrave and scrolled pediments. Plaster ceiling over the stair
has dentils and modillions to the cornice and good quality Rococo
detail to the central panel. Principal front parlour has panelled
walls with fielded panelling; an arched niche; C18 chimney piece
and intricate Rococo ceiling. Other rooms inspected also have good
quality C18 features including panelled doors, architraves and
chimney pieces. Basement kitchen has C18 dresser and the cellars
have brick barrel vaults.
Behind the house is a walled garden with a
retaining wall at the front forming a passage between the garden
and the basement of the house. Built into the bank of the garden
is a large ice house and a covered well entrance. The ice house
has a chamfered granite doorway. Walls are granite rubble and
there is some brick laid to English bond. Some granite copings.
Adjoining outside the right hand wall is a rectangular rubble
closet with a slate roof. Closet was originally cleaned by a
leat. Set into the garden are two original oval granite
monolithic ornamental or fish ponds.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/291 Sundial at
approximately 20 metres in front of Tretheague House.
GV
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Sundial. C18. Dressed granite with brass clock
face and pointer. Octagonal
on plan shaft (possibly reused) surmounted by a
projecting square edged cap
with sundial set in the middle.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/292 Gate piers
at approximately 50 metres south west of Tretheague House
GV
II
Gate piers. C18 Dressed granite and granite
rubble. Two square on plan gate
piers with monolithic inner jambs and moulded
caps with ball finials.
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/293 Former
stables at approximately 50 metres south west of Tretheague House
GV
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Former stables and carriage house with hay loft
over and mounting block,
now converted to accommodation. Granite rubble
walls with granite
moorstone dressings. Grouted scantle hipped
roof with C20 bellcote over the
middle. C20 ogee gutters.
Plan; Central
former carriage house with former stables and probably tack
room at the sides. Built into the bank at rear
with rear loading doorway to
the former hay loft/granary. First floor now
subdivided and some of the
openings at the front are C20 or remodelled in
C20.
Exterior; Two
storeys fairly regular east north east front with wide carriage
doorway slightly left of middle. There is an
ashlar course with voussoirs.
Under the eaves are two tiers of pigeon holes
at left and right. Carriage house
Has pair of old boarded doors; there is a
ventilated door to the doorway on its
Left and a barred two light and other openings
have C20 12 pane horned
sashes.
Interior; Not
inspected.
Mounting block at far left of front is dressed
granite moorstone and has steps
On its right. Later granite platform on its
left.
[These
buildings have been granted Listed Building Consent and Planning
Permission for conversion to dwellings for holiday let]
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/294 Cross at
approximately 200 metres south east of Tretheague House
GV
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Cross. Pre Conquest. Tall granite wheelhead
monolith with lug on either
Side of the neck. There is a cross patee in
relief to either face of the
wheelhead and there is incised intersecting
decoration to either side of the
SW 73 NW
STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/295 Tretheague
Farmhouse and cottage including adjoining outbuildings (Formerly
listed as Tretheague Farmhouse)
10.7.57
GV
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Farmhouse and former farmhouse. C17 extended
with new self contained
Farmhouse circa mil-late C19. C17 house is
slurried rubble and had a fairly
Steep (eaves heightened circa mid-late C19) dry
Delabole slate roof and there
is a very tall rubble stack at the right hand
gable end. C19 house has granite
rubble walls with granite dressings, slurried
scantle slate roof and brick
chimneys over the gable ends. There are cast
iron ogee section gutters to
both houses.
Plan; Double
depth farmhouse on the left and wider single depth plan C17
Former farmhouse built on lower ground
adjoining on the right. C19 house
Has two equal sized rooms at the front flanking
s central entrance hall leading
To a central stair hall between back kitchen on
its left and pantry on its right.
C17 house has small room on the left and large
room on the right. The floors
And probably the roof structure(not inspected)
were replaced circa late C19. A
single storey diary possibly older than the
house adjoins on the left side of
the farmhouse and built in front of this is a
single storey probably wash house
or possibly piggery with integral swill
kitchen.
Exterior; Two
storey. Farmhouse on the left has symmetrical three window
Front with central doorway. Original four panel
door. Possibly original 12 pane
horned sash on right of doorway, otherwise
horned copies. C17 house front
on the right is an irregular two window front,
partly rebuilt probably in C18.
Originally chamfered doorway left of middle
(now fitted with C20 window).
Small window openings. First floor window left
of doorway is a circa early
C19 12 pane sash, the other windows are circa
late C19 horned sashes. Right
hand corner of front is splayed.
Interior;
Farmhouse interior not inspected. C17 house interior has C19
carpentry and joinery. Original fireplace
partly blocked.
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2/296 Barn
immediately north west of Tretheague Farmhouse
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Barn, probably granary or hayloft over shippons,
circa late C18 or early C19.
Dressed granite front otherwise granite rubble.
Scantle slate roof with gable
Ends.
Plan;
Rectangular plan with splayed corner at the front left. There were
originally probably two similar sized shippons
on the ground floor (now one
room) and there is a large loft above.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Slightly irregular east north east front with three
Windows to the first floor and four windows to
the ground floor. Doorways
Towards the left and towards right. Loading
doorway over left hand doorway,
window over other doorway. Old ventilated and
ledged doors and old
ventilated window in original small openings.
Interior; Has
old floor structure and probably original roof structure (not
Inspected).
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Tretheague Mill
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Miller’s house. Probably late C18, extended
circa early C19. Granite rubble
Walls. Scantle slate roof at the front,
corrugated asbestos sweeping lower at
the rear. External rubble stack with brick
chimney at the right hand gable end
and hipped end on the left. Cast iron ogee
gutters.
Plan; Three
room range with shallow service rooms at rear. Original double
Millers house on the right with its
kitchen/living room on the right hand and
Parlour on the left. Extension on the left has
fireplace for former copper for
Former use as a wash house but may once have
contained mill machinery.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Overall three window south east front. Original nearly
Symmetrical two window front with central
doorway on the right and irregular
One window front of circa early C19 extension
on the left. Original doorway has C19 four panel door, other
doorway has ledged door. Windows are circa late C19 six pane
horned sashes or horned copies (except two light casement at far
left).
Interior; Fairly
unaltered interior with much of the C19 structure and joinery
remaining.
[This house has subsequently been rehabilitated
in the late C20, with what changes is unknown]
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STITHIANS TREVALES
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Trevales House
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Small country house. Circa mid C18, extended
circa late C19. Granite ashlar
Walls at the front, dressed granite extensions,
otherwise painted rubble.
Dry Delabole slate roofs; half hipped over
original house towards left,
Otherwise hipped and with coped or pedimented
gables. Rendered brick stacks over either side of the principal
part of the original house and at the
rear of extension, and there is a large
external stack over a window bay at the right hand end.
Plan; Double
depth plan. Original house has two reception rooms at the front; a
parlour on the left and a former parlour on the right, remodelled
in C19 to make a two storey galleried hall and incorporating
former central entrance hall. The original stair hall is between
the large rear rooms with the original stone flagged kitchen on
the left. There is an integral one room wide service wing on the
left and there are two cellars; a large vaulted cellar under the
left hand side of the house and a smaller cellar under the stairs.
Circa late C19 a large cross wing was added on the right of the
C18 house. This deeper wing is two rooms deep and has projecting
two storey bay windows.
Exterior; Two
storeys. 1:3:1 bay south south west front. Left hand bay is lower
and is a coped gable end of the service wing. Next three bays are
a symmetrical three window entrance front with central doorway.
There is a plinth and parapet string and an ashlar parapet
(extended in C19 over the extension) but the parapet now forms the
eaves of the roof, the wide window openings are spanned by very
shallow keyed arches. Original panelled door and eared doorcase
within circa early C20 glazed porch with low pitched gable and
shaped barge board. The windows are circa late C18 paired 12 pane
sashes with some original glass except for horned copy at ground
floor left. Wide C19 wing projects forward on the right and has
central 14 mullioned window with side lights in two storey
projecting bay surmounted by a triangular pediment with moulded
cornice. There is a similar window bay to the right hand return
wall, lighting the rear room.
Rear has C18 paired sashes and one horned copy.
Built out in front of former stair window is a large four light
transommed window with round arch headed lights an coloured glass.
Interior; Largely
remodelled when extended and most of the features including
plaster ceiling cornices, chimney pieces and cantilevered
d=gallery over the hall are of this period. Some C18 features
survive however, including a dog leg stair with closed strong and
column turned banisters, stone flagged floor in the kitchen and
brick vaulted cellars with their original storage compartments.
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Mounting block at approximately 20 metres
south west of Trevales House.
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Mounting block. C18. Granite rubble with
granite dressings. Simple mounting
Block built against a rubble wall. The steps
have round nosings.
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STITHIANS TREVALES
2/300
Gate piers and flanking walls
at approximately 35 metres
south east of Trevales House.
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at approximately 35 metres
south east of Trevales House.
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Gate piers and flanking wall. Circe early C18.
Granite ashlar in diminishing
courses with dressed granite plinth and
copings, granite monolithic gate
piers and ahslar terminal piers. Square on plan
gate piers are flanked by
concave segmental on plan walls and large
square on plan terminal piers.
Gate piers are round headed, copings are sloped
up to an apex and the
terminal piers have squat pyrimidial caps.
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2/302 (where is
2/301?) Gate piers,
flanking walls
and stile at approx 200
metres east south east of Trevales House.
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Gate piers, flanking walls and stile. Circa
early C19. Granite ashlar walls,
granite monolithic piers. Wider gateway with
square on plan piers flanked
by convex segmental on plan wall on the left
and straight wall pierced by
opening with grid stile, on the right. Round
headed piers, some original
copings.
[The flanking walls here
have been allowed to fall into serious disrepair in
recent years and would
benefit from urgent restoration being listed.]
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STITHIANS TREVALES
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Trevales Farmhouse including
garden walls and gate piers.
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Farmhouse, front garden walls and gate piers.
Circa early C19. Coursed
granite front with granite dressings. Grouted
scantle slate hipped roof
with central cross valley at rear. Brick
chimneys over side walls. Cast iron
ogee gutters.
Plan; Double
depth plan with two similar sized front rooms flanking a cross
passage leading to stair hall between rear
service rooms, back kitchen on
the left and pantry on the right.
Exterior; Two
storeys. Symmetrical three window south front with central
doorway. C20 door. Original 12 pane hornless
sashes. Original windows also
at rear and there is an original 16 pane 2
light casement to the right hand
wall of the pantry.
Interior; Not
inspected.
Low
coursed granite wall surrounds rectangular front garden at front.
There is a gateway with granite monolithic piers on the left hand
wall.
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