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

 SW 73  NW             STITHIANS

2/429                                                           Footbridge at SW 731375

 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

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

 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

 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 1^st 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 14^th April 1999                           Signed by authority of Secretary of State

                                                          M Parsons

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.

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.

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.

SW 73 NW                       STITHIANS            KENNALL VALE

2/256                                                           Cartsheds, stables and piggery at approximately from 10 metres North of Kennall Farmhouse.

GV                                                               II

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