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Penvearne Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Cury, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.0515 / 50°3'5"N

Longitude: -5.2313 / 5°13'52"W

OS Eastings: 168777

OS Northings: 21823

OS Grid: SW687218

Mapcode National: GBR Z3.RWD6

Mapcode Global: VH13B.8YRW

Plus Code: 9C2P3Q29+JF

Entry Name: Penvearne Farmhouse

Listing Date: 22 June 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1328554

English Heritage Legacy ID: 65174

ID on this website: 101328554

Location: White Cross, Cornwall, TR12

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Cury

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Cury with Gunwalloe

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SW 62 SE CURY

3/15 Penvearne Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. C17, remodelled and extended C18 and re-roofed in the C19. Shale rubble
and cob walls, timber lintels and some granite. Grouted scantle slate roof with
brick chimneys over 2 gable ends and over 2 cross walls. Half-hipped outshut roof
over rear wings.
Present plan: irregular L-shape, plus pair of parallel 1-room 2-storey service wings
at rear right. Main range is original C17 3-room house on right and 2 room circa
early C19 house added to left, (one room now incorporated into main house) and
further circa late added to left, 2-room house added in front of right-hand room of,
and at right angles to original house. Probably originally a 3-room and through
passage plan with hall and inner room, left, and lower room, right, with integral
service wing behind both hall and lower room, making 5 rooms in all.
2 storeys. Overall slightly irregular 5-window south front with gable end of
projecting wing at right; 2-window front of circa early C19 house, left; and 3-window
front of original house, middle. This 3-window part, remodelled in the C18 and eaves
heightened in the C19 is the higher end (ie the hall and inner room) of the original
house with the lower end front obscured by the wing. Present doorway within circa
early C20 glass porch between ground floor left and middle windows. Middle window
with 8-pane horned sash possibly in position of C18 doorway. Ground floor windows
left and right are C18 fixed lights with intersecting traceried heads; both with wide
glazing bars and some original crown glass. Left-hand window has internal ovolo-
moulding and right-hand window is chamfered. Straight joint between ground floor
middle and right-hand window. Circa early C19 16-pane hornless sashes to first floor
flanking gable of porch and C20 window at far right near angle with wing.
Rear has good cob texture of the pair of wings (re-roofed under one roof in the C19).
Each wing originally had a ground and first floor window probably identical to the
surviving 2-light oak mullioned window with blocked lights to first floor left.
Ground floor left-hand window now doorway and later windows to right-hand wing in
slightly altered openings. Back doorway was probably originally between the wings
but now blocked.
Interior has C19 or C20 carpentry and joinery except for remains of large hearth
with chamfered oak lintel and chamfered and stopped granite jamb visible in east wall
of rear wing.
Although much remodelled in the C18 and C19, this is a fascinating house; curious for
its plan with a pair of identical service wings, and remarkable for its surviving C17
oak mullioned window at the rear and the 2 C18 windows with Gothic tracery to the
front, possibly unique in Cornwall.


Listing NGR: SW6877721823

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