Haven Cottage the Moorings
HAVEN COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140738
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Haven Cottage the Moorings
- Statutory Address:
- HAVEN COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140738
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Haven Cottage the Moorings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAVEN COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE MOORINGS, QUAY ROAD
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:
- HAVEN COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOORINGS, QUAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2095850942
Details
LANSALLOS QUAY ROAD, (north side), Polperro
SX 2050-2150
6/87 The Moorings and Haven Cottage
(previously listed as Haven Cottage
21.8.64 and cottage adjoining)
GV II
Store and house now house divided into flats. Circa late C18. Painted and rendered
stone rubble with asbestos slate roof with gable ends. Stone rubble chimney stack on
left-hand gable end. Further projecting stone rubble wing at higher end with scantle
slate roof continuing slope of main range. Original plan uncertain but now a pair of
houses above cellars built over harbour wall, the cellars having access to the
harbour at the rear. Wing, probably later, to right of front.
Built on side of harbour. 4-storey elevation to rear with 3-storey elevation to
front. 3-window asymmetrical front. Ground floor with steps leading down to
entrance to basement on right. C20 2-light casement with glazing bars above in
ground floor. Ground rises to right and 2 flights of stone rubble steps lead up to
the ground floor entrances of The Moorings and Haven Cottage. 4-panel door and C20
glazed door, both beneath continuous slate lean-to hood. First floor with two 2-
light casements with glazing bars beneath timber lintels. Second floor with 2-light
casement and C20 window on right, both with glazing bars. Projecting forward on
right, stone rubble wing of 3 storeys with entrance to store on ground floor on front
and side entrance adjoining that of Haven Cottage. 4-pane sash and C20 fenestration
on front.
Rear elevation rises from harbour wall and faces harbour. Low rendered balcony
projects beyond the harbour walls on ground floor. 3-window asymmetrical front with
4-pane sashes and 2-light casements with glazing bars. The rear elevation is an
important feature of Polperro Harbour and is largely unaltered.
Interior not inspected.
Early photograph by Lewis Harding. Circa 1860s.
Lanyon, A The Rooks of Trelawne 1976.
Listing NGR: SX2095850942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61553
- 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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