Quay Cottage And Assayer's Laboratory

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TAVISTOCK HAMLETS MORWELLHAM SX 46 NW 8/1 Quay Cottage and Assayer's Laboratory GV II House with attached assayer's laboratory, storage sheds attached to right with cottage to rear; interiors reconstructed for museum display. Mid C19 with C20 alterations.

Slatestone rubble with granite dressings, slate roofs with brick gable end stacks to house and rear external rubble stack heating room to rear left. House of single depth plan, with entry directly into room to left, with straight stair to rear of room; 2-room plan.

2 storeys, first floor has three 2-light casements of 8 panes each; ground floor has horizontal sliding sash with 4-pane toplights to right and left of gabled trellis porch with half-glazed door with 4-pane light to left. Second door and similar sash to end right to laboratory. Wall splayed back to right to storage shed of same roof height, with 2 double and one single door, pitched roof in corrugated iron on wooden piers over front area. Rear of shed is reconstructed as miners cottage at upper level, built into the slope of the ground. Rear of house has door with cambered granite lintel, single storey lean-to to left and wooden porch to right.

Interior Not inspected.

(Sources: Booker,F.: Morwellham. 1970)

Listing NGR: SX4453869608

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0766 IOE Records taken by Stephen C Fryer; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Stephen C. Fryer. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project