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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
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Boundary Stone at SW747357
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Boundary stone. Circa early C19. Round headed
rectangular on plan dressed granite monolith inscribed with 1 on
its face.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS
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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
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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.
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Guide post at SW735373
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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
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Milestone at SW705384
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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
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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
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Barn and adjoining outbuilding
immediately West of Treweege Barton farmhouse.
GV
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hendra House
GV
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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
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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
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Hendra Farmhouse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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