OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH

OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140076
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140076
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH, FORE STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD CLINK AND FORECOURT WALL AND ARCH TO SOUTH, FORE STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Callington
National Grid Reference:: SX 35847 69633

Details

SX 36 N CALLINGTON FORE STREET (north side),

8/27 Old clink and forecourt wall and arch to south.

GV II

Vestry room and 2 lock-up cells used as a store. 1851 (datestone) at cost of £60 paid by John Couch Johns. Rubblestone with large granite quoins. String between ground and first floor. Slate roof with gabled ends to north, south and east. Projecting stone stack on west with shaft removed. Square plan with 2 rectangular cells on ground floor and single vestry room on first. 2 storeys, asymmetrical south front. Entrances to cells under 4-centred cut stone arches with original heavy planked doors and fanlights above. Bars to fanlight removed on right. First floor; 2-light casement with pointed Gothic glazing bars. Granite lintel. 4-centred granite arch doorway to right with plank door approached by external stone rubble steps. East side; 3-light casement with pointed Gothic glazing bars and datestone above in gable end. North side with similar casement. Ground rises to north to enclose ground floor. Rubblestone walls extending to south to enclose area in front of clink. Large 4-centred cut granite arch with incised spandrels forming entrance in centre on south. In 1851 Henry Bullen was appointed Parish Constable and used the 2 lock-up cells for drunks and vagrants. Vestry room was used by the relieving officers, with the overseer in attendance, when distributing weekly to the 'Out Poor'. Sheila Lightbody The Book of Callington 1982

Listing NGR: SX3585069636

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Legacy System number:: 61228
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Lightbody, S, The Book of Callington, (1982)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.