Quay Cottage and Assayer's Laboratory
QUAY COTTAGE AND ASSAYER'S LABORATORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105705
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Cottage and Assayer's Laboratory
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY COTTAGE AND ASSAYER'S LABORATORY
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- Date:
- 2002-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/06515/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105705
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Cottage and Assayer's Laboratory
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUAY COTTAGE AND ASSAYER'S LABORATORY
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:
- QUAY COTTAGE AND ASSAYER'S LABORATORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gulworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 44538 69608
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Booker, F, Morwellham, (1970)
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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