Old Pound Cottage the Cottage
OLD POUND COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136947
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Pound Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POUND COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2002-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/06541/26
- Rights:
- © Mr W. Wesley Colwill. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136947
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Pound Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POUND COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE 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.
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:
- OLD POUND COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- THE 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:
- SX3125364728
Details
SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK QUETHIOCK
12/136 The Cottage and Old Pound cottage
GV II
House divided into 2 cottages. Circa early C17. Lower end possibly rebuilt in mid
C17. Stone rubble, rendered on The Cottage, to the left. Asbestos slate roof with
gabled end on left and hipped on right. 2 front lateral stacks, rendered stone
rubble with brick shafts. Old Pound Cottage at lower end to right and The Cottage at
higher end to left.
2 room and through passage plan, the lower end possibly partly rebuilt in mid C17.
Wide through passage. Stair turret at rear of hall. Front lateral hall and kitchen
stacks. Later rear outshut at lower end containing dairy. C20 extension to rear of
hall.
2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 window front. Ground floor with C20 3-light casement with
glazing bars to left. Small rectangular window adjoining fireplace with rendered
granite surround. Early C20 plank door with glazed light with sloping hood above.
To right, cloam oven projection below front lateral stack with slate hood. 2-light
casement to right with glazing bars and dressed stone segmental arch. Slate hood
above. Second storey with two C20 windows and 2-light casement to right beneath
renewed timber lintel. Right-hand hipped end of Old Pound Cottage with small narrow
rectangular light with stone surround and thick early glass. Rear door to through
passage with chamfered timber lintel.
Interior; wide through passage with heavy ceiling beams. Partition between passage
and hall probably timber screen, now covered. Chamfered bressumer above. Hall with
granite fireplace with chamfered jambs and lintel. Ceiling beams replaced stone
winder stair in projection to rear. Incorporated in later extension.
Interior of Old Pound Cottage; heavy chamfered ceiling beams with some run-out stops.
Timber lintel to former kitchen fireplace chamfered with run-out stops. Cloam ovens.
Opening to through passage now blocked. Chamfered and stopped timber lintel. Roof
timbers circa mid C18.
M. French A Victorian Village. A record of the Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall.
1977
Listing NGR: SX3125364728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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