Description

HELSTON

SW62NW PORTHLEVEN ROAD
631-1/1/221 (East side (off))
22/05/72 Higher Lanner Farmhouse and attached
forecourt walls and barn
(Formerly Listed as:
PORTHLEVEN ROAD
Higher Lanner Farmhouse)

II

Farmhouse and attached barn. C18, extended c1845, roof altered
1855. Killas rubble with granite dressings; scantle slate
roof, lower at rear left and hipped on the right; original
rubble stack on the left; 2 brick axial stacks.
Originally a 2-room plan extended later with outshut behind
kitchen/living room on the left and with a 1-room-plan
extension on the right and a barn at far right c1845; stair
projection in rear angle probably 1876. 2 storeys;
3-window-range house and 2-window-range barn. House has 2
early C19 16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor of original
part over later 4-pane horned sashes and possibly original
12-pane casements to extension; planked door central to
original part and partly glazed porch.
Barn has symmetrical 2-window front on its right with original
shutters on the left, 6-pane windows on the right and central
doorway with planked stable door. Left of this is another door
with loading doorway over and there is another doorway at far
left; ledged doors.
INTERIOR: C18 features include some panelled doors with
fielded panels and HL hinges, slate floor in the
kitchen/living room; old floor structure boxed in; some plank
and muntin partitions and the remains of the original roof
structure. C19 features include floor and roof structures of
additions and the 1876 staircase with turned newel, stick
balusters and ramped handrail.
Subsidiary features: rubble forecourt walls with granite
copings and incorporating the base of a cider press.
(National Trust Vernacular Building Survey: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SW6443926176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503942

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)