Fish Cellars
FISH CELLARS, 1, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115065
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Fish Cellars
- Statutory Address:
- FISH CELLARS, 1, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115065
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Fish Cellars
- Statutory Address 1:
- FISH CELLARS, 1, FORE STREET
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:
- FISH CELLARS, 1, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Endellion
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9963180752
Details
SW 98 SE
9/54
6.6.69
ST ENDELLION
FORE STREET, (north side),
Port Isaac
No 1 (Fish Cellars)
GV
II
Fish cellars. Circa early C19. Stone rubble. Slate roof with hipped and gabled
ends.
Irregular courtyard plan with 2-storey range on front with wide opening in centre for
access to courtyard within. Canted rear projecting wing on left originally comprised
stables, salt pits, range open fronted to yard with arcade of timber and granite
posts and net lofts above. Canted rear projecting wing on right comprised later
kipper house, C20 lobster tanks and open-fronted sheds.
Front range of 2 storeys with asymmetrical 3-window front. Wide opening in centre of
ground floor with 3 hornless 12-pane sashes above and stone rubble external stair on
right-hand side leading up to offices on first floor. Rear projecting wing on left
partly rebuilt with part used as public convenience. Entrances to first floor net
lofts on Roscarrock Hill elevation.
The cellars were originally used for the pilchard industry. The catch was initially
layered with salt on the floor of the courtyard until the bulk had broken. It was
then loaded into leaky hogsheads which were arranged around the sides of the cellars
on timber boards positioned over shallow gullies. The fish were then crushed by
large stones suspended from long pressing beams which were slotted into brick niches
in the walls and the oil was pressed out of the hogsheads and was collected as it ran
along the gullies. The open sheds, gully and brick niches for the pressing holes
survive in the west range of these cellars. By the mid C19, when the pilchard catch
was declining, the cellars were partly adapted for herrings which were kippered in
the smoking house on the east. Part of this smoking house has now been converted
into a shop.
The cellars continue to be used by the fishing industry in Port Isaac which now
concentrates on lobsters and crabs.
Important elevations to the harbour, Fore Street and Roscarrock Hill.
Listing NGR: SW9963180752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351386
- 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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