Harbour Masters Cottage

HARBOUR MASTERS COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140778
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1964
List Entry Name:
Harbour Masters Cottage
Statutory Address:
HARBOUR MASTERS COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140778
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1964
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Harbour Masters Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HARBOUR MASTERS COTTAGE, QUAY ROAD

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HARBOUR MASTERS COTTAGE, 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:
SX 20932 50939

Details

LANSALLOS QUAY ROAD, (north side), Polperro SX 2050-2150 6/82 Harbour Masters Cottage (previously 21.8.64 listed as Harbour Masters Cottage, Lansallos Street) GV II

Harbour Master's Cottage. Circa early C19. Painted stone rubble with asbestos slate roof with hipped ends. Projecting stone rubble chimney stack with shaft removed on harbour side. Appears to be double depth 2-room plan with principal room at front with entrance to right and smaller room at rear. Built into side of hill with 3 storey elevation to Quay Road and 4-storey elevation to harbour. 3-storey regular single-window front facing west. Ground floor with C20 2-light window with glazing bars and C20 door to right, both beneath single slate lean-to canopy. First floor with C19 16-pane sash and second floor with late C19 2- light casement with glazing bars. Harbour side elevation with 4-pane casement on lower ground floor, narrow 1-light casement above and tall narrow casement breaking eaves with raking roof above. Elevations fairly unaltered. See early photograph, circa 1850s by Lewis Harding. Interior not inspected. Lanyon, A The Rooks of Trelawne 1976.

Listing NGR: SX2095250930

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Legacy System number:
61547
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Lanyon, A, The Rocks of Trelawne, (1976)

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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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