Island House
ISLAND HOUSE, THE WARREN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140718
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Island House
- Statutory Address:
- ISLAND HOUSE, THE WARREN
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140718
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Island House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISLAND HOUSE, THE WARREN
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:
- ISLAND HOUSE, THE WARREN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2104550960
Details
LANSALLOS THE WARREN, (south side), Polperro
SX 2050-2150
6/134 Island House (previously listed as
Island House, Warren Road)
21.8.64
GV II
Net sheds, converted to house, now empty. Circa early to mid C19. Painted and
rendered. Stone rubble with slate roof with hipped ends. Rendered brick chimney
stacks in hipped ends.
Rectangular on plan, interior plan uncertain, but has end stacks and end entrances at
higher ground level. Situated on steeply sloping site with 4 storey and attic to
harbour front and 2 storey and attic at rear facing Warren Street. Built on solid
rock. Regular 3-window harbour elevation with 2 rectangular C19 casements with
glazing bars flanking central 2-light C19 casement. Upper floors with C19 12-pane
sashes beneath brick segmental arches. 2 attic dormer windows with almost flat
roofs, with 12-pane C19 sash on left and 3-light casement with glazing bars on right.
Lean-to porch on left end . Warren Street elevation of 2 storeys with C20
fenestration.
Interior not inspected.
Harbour walls and quay directly to south (qv harbour, Polperro).
Harbour side elevation unaltered since mid C19. See photograph taken in circa 1860s
by Lewis Harding in A Lanyon The Rooks of Trelawne 1976.
Listing NGR: SX2104550960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lanyon, A, The Rocks of Trelawne, (1976)
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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