Beach Cottage and Wall Attached to Rear

BEACH COTTAGE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1137572
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Beach Cottage and Wall Attached to Rear
Statutory Address:
BEACH COTTAGE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1137572
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Beach Cottage and Wall Attached to Rear
Statutory Address 1:
BEACH COTTAGE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BEACH COTTAGE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Goran
National Grid Reference:
SX 01292 41588

Details

ST GORAN CHURCH STREET (east side), SX 0041 0141 Gorran Haven 5/93 Beach Cottage and wall attached to - rear

GV II

House with boundary wall attached to rear. Late C18-early C19, with C20 alterations. Rendered stone rubble. Concrete tiled roof, hipped to left and with gable end to right. End stack to left with rendered shaft. Partly slate-hung. Plan: 2-room plan, with one room to front heated from an end stack to left and one room to rear. At the rear, the house is built over a fish cellar which faces on to the beach. The wall is attached to rear left and encloses a small yard at the rear of the house. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical one-window front. At ground and first floor to left there is a C19 12-pane sash. To right a C20 half-glazed door. The right side abuts the adjoining house. At the left side there is a small ventilator to the cellar and a C19 12-pane sash at ground floor. At the rear, the wall is battered at cellar level; at ground floor there is a 2-light window with external shutters and late C19 4-pane sash at first floor. The wall enclosing the yard is battered; painted at lower level and rendered above. The rear room of the house projects beyond the Mermaid Cafe (q.v.) which is attached to right; this forms a two-storey rear wing. On the inner side, this is slate-hung with C20 2-light casement at ground floor and two late C19 8-pane sashes at first floor. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX0129241588

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
71591
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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