Maids House
MAIDS HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140037
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Maids House
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDS HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140037
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Maids House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDS HOUSE
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:
- MAIDS HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Quethiock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3123264726
Details
SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK QUETHIOCK
12/137 Maids House
GV II
Four 1-roomed almshouses, then 2 cottages, now 1 cottage. Circa 1633-1640. Restored
in 1970s-1980s. Built for poor spinsters of the parish by William Coryton. Painted
stone rubble with painted rendered concrete block repairs. Rag slate roof with
hipped end on left and gable end on right. Brick stack on ridge near centre
replacing stone rubble stack.
2 room plan with axial stacks between, with back-to-back fireplaces. 1½ storeys,
originally symmetrical, 2 window front. 2 entrance doors near centre with chamfered
granite lintels and jambs with pyramid stops. C20, part glazed, plank doors.
Flanking entrances, two 3-light granite mullioned windows with hollow chamfered
mullions. Left-hand window renewed. Above 2 half-dormer windows with slate raking
roofs, inserted in 1970s. Reused 1-light and 3-light casements with glazing.
Dormers with casements to rear.
Interior; 2 granite fireplaces, back-to-back, chamfered granite lintels and jambs
with pyramid stops. Granite hearth to right-hand fireplace. Ceiling beams replaced.
Roof of 6 bays with heavy principals chamfered below collars with straight cranked
feet dying into wall. Wall plate possibly raised. Collars chamfered, dovetailed
into principals.
V. M and F. J Chesher. The Cornishman's House, 1968
Mary French A Victorian Village. A record of the Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall
1977
Listing NGR: SX3123264726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61336
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
French, M, A Victorian Village A Record of the Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall, (1977)
Chesher, V M, F J, , The Cornishmans House, (1968)
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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