Tighna Dris is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

Tighna Dris

WRENN ID
graven-terrace-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1987
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The property, Tighna Dris, is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with an asbestos slate roof, featuring gable ends. A brick shaft rises from a gable stack on the left, and another from a front lateral stack on the right, incorporating slate weathering.

The house originally comprised two rooms, one on the left with a gable-end stack and another to the right with a front lateral stack, each with a stairway to the rear. A rear right wing was added, probably in the later 17th century. The main house is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century three-light casement under a timber lintel, a 20th-century stable door with a wide timber lintel, the external stack, and another three-light 20th-century casement. The first floor features gabled dormers on the right and left, each with a three-light casement; the left has six panes, and the right eight, both with L hinges. The sides of the house are attached to adjacent buildings. At the rear, a small lean-to wash house is on the right, and a two-storey wing extends to the left with three casements, one formerly a door. The first floor of this wing has a casement with L hinges and a 20th-century two-light casement. The rear of the main house features a three-light casement serving the stairwell, also with L hinges. A half gable end is visible on the wing, with a single-storey 20th-century addition to its end; a corner stack is present on the wing with a cornice.

The ground floor is now an open room, retaining part of the stud partition between the passage and the room to the left. The room to the right features an unusually high ceiling, with one large chamfered crossbeam and a lower crossbeam beneath. A reconstructed winder stair is located at the rear of this room, dividing to the rear right to access the first floor of the rear wing. The room to the left has a winder stair and a two-light casement to the rear. On the first floor, the left room displays a wall plate, two later roughly-hewn principal rafters, and one truss with curved principals, formerly with a threaded purlin; the remainder of the roof structure is inaccessible. A blocked fireplace, formerly used to heat only the first-floor chamber, is in the rear wall. The room to the right has boxed beams. The rear wing incorporates a two-room plan with a passage along the right side.

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