Well Cottage

WELL COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136935
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Well Cottage
Statutory Address:
WELL COTTAGE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136935
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Well Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WELL COTTAGE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WELL COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Quethiock
National Grid Reference:
SX 31267 64739

Details

SX 36 SW
12/134

QUETHIOCK
QUETHIOCK Well Cottage

GII
House appears to have been once converted to two cottages.Circa late C17 or early C18.Painted stone rubble with slate roof with gable ends.Large projecting stone rubble stacks in gable ends.Two room and cross passage plan.Plan altered to form two cottages with cross passage removed.Converted back to house of two room plan,without cross passage and entrance moved to C20 porch extension on left-hand gable end.Two storeys, Two window regular front.Ground floor with two C20 two-light casements without glazing bars.Slate roof canopy at centre,formerly for two doorways, right-hand replaced with small C20 window.Timber and glazed C20 door on left.Two C20 two-light casements without glazing bars above.All windows in small probably original opening.C20 porch extension set back on left-hand gable end,rendered with sloping slate roof.Ceiling beams retained in right-hand room.Slightly chamfered and unstopped.C19 photograph of Well Cottage in M.French A Victorian Village.A record of the[Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall,1977.


Listing NGR: SX3126464743

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61333
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Sources

Books and journals
French, M, A Victorian Village A Record of the Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall, (1977)

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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