Jeffery's Cottage and the Flat
JEFFERY'S COTTAGE AND THE FLAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137602
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Jeffery's Cottage and the Flat
- Statutory Address:
- JEFFERY'S COTTAGE AND THE FLAT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137602
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Jeffery's Cottage and the Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- JEFFERY'S COTTAGE AND THE FLAT
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:
- JEFFERY'S COTTAGE AND THE FLAT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 40251 22753
Details
ST BURYAN PENBERTH COVE SW 42 SW 8/113 Jeffery's Cottage and The Flat - GV II House and adjoining former fishermen's cellars and stores. C18 or possibly older heightened circa early C19. Walls incorporate some reused C17 masonry. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with dressed granite chimney over left-hand gable end; brick chimneys over the other gable end and over the party wall. Plan: Long rectangular plan. Original 2-room-plan house on the left, later wider fish cellars and net-basking cellars with loft, on the right. Eaves of both parts were heightened probably circa early C19. Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 6-window south-west front. Original 2-window front house on the left with approximately central doorway. Circa late-C19 or C20 ledged door and 4-pane sashes in C18 openings. Later building, on the right, has original doorways at left and right (now fitted with window) central ground floor window with reused C17 2-light head of mullioned window and large buttress on its left. Old ledged door to left-hand doorway, otherwise C20 door and windows. Old photograph of the house (copy in possession of occupier) shows the house lime-washed on the front wall around the door and ground floor windows forming a rectangular panel. This was once a traditional treatment particularly in fishing villages. Interior: House has unspoiled interior with C19 carpentry and joinery details. Left-hand fish cellar has cobbled floor with runnels leading to underground wooden vat for collecting oil pressed from pilchards. There are holes for beam ends at about 1 metre from the floor in the rear wall.
Listing NGR: SW4025222753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69667
- 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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