Durfold
Durfold, Blisland, PL30 4JL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146409
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Durfold
- Statutory Address:
- Durfold, Blisland, PL30 4JL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146409
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Durfold
- Statutory Address 1:
- Durfold, Blisland, PL30 4JL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Durfold, Blisland, PL30 4JL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blisland
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1168773468
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX 17 SW
9/10
BLISLAND
Durfold
(Formerly listed as Durford)
GV
II
House. Circa early C17 or earlier, gutted by fire in the 1960s and partly rebuilt in the 1970s - 1980s. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gable ends. Rebuilt projecting stone rubble end stack on left, front lateral hall stack with moulded granite cap and projecting stone rubble end stack on right with moulded granite cap.
Plan: House built along slope with ground rising to right. Original plan possibly three room and through passage arrangement with service room on left, hall/kitchen heated by front lateral stack and inner room to right heated by end stack. Stair projection to rear of higher side of hall giving access to chamber above inner room. It is possible that the hall was originally open to the roof with a two storey inner room and lower end. Circa C17 two storey porch to front of through passage. Circa C19 outshot added to rear of lower end and passage. Possibly on site of earlier wing which may have contained stair to room above lower end.
Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical five window front with ground rising to right. Two storey porch to left of centre with front lateral stack to right and hall bay adjoining largely rebuilt. Circa C19 porch to right. The two storey porch has a round-headed chamfered arch with ball and pyramidal stops and a C20 two-light casement on ground and first floor. C20 two-light casement in rebuilt hall bay projection with C19 gabled porch to right. Semi-circular stair projection to rear of higher end on rear left. Lean-to outshot to rear of lower end, passage and lower end of hall.
Interior: not accessible at time of survey (1986)
Listing NGR: SX1168773468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67296
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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