The Tinners Arms
THE TINNERS ARMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137980
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Tinners Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE TINNERS ARMS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04194/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137980
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Tinners Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TINNERS ARMS
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:
- THE TINNERS ARMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Zennor
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 45439 38496
Details
ZENNOR ZENNOR SW 43 NE 4/339 The Tinners Arms 9.2.88 GV II Public house. Probably circa early C18 extended in the C19 and C20. Granite rubble with granite moorstone dressings. Grouted or slurried scantle slate roofs. Dressed granite stacks over the original gable ends. Plan: 2 room plan house (now 1 room) with larger hall/kitchen, right, and parlour over lower ground, left. Possibly there was an unheated middle room for there is a small blocked window right of the doorway. In the C19 extended on the left and at right angles to the front, left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Originally a slightly irregular 2 or 3 window front but left- hand bay obscured by C19 addition. Doorway left of middle. Window openings are C19 altered or added except for blocked opening right of doorway. C20 door and windows. Interior: large fireplace, right and small fireplace, left. D. H. Lawrence stayed at the Tinner's Arms in 1916 with his wife Frieda, while looking for a cottage to rent. They eventually found Higher Tregerthen (Rananim q.v.).
Listing NGR: SW4543838502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70659
- 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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