Watergate Cottages
WATERGATE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140793
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watergate Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WATERGATE COTTAGES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13919/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140793
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watergate Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERGATE COTTAGES
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:
- WATERGATE COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2336854495
Details
LANSALLOS
SX 25 SW
4/15 Watergate Cottages
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II
Pair of cottages. Probably mid C19. Stone rubble with rag slate roofs with gable
ends. Large projecting stone rubble chimney stack on left-hand gable end and smaller
stone rubble chimney stack on right-hand gable end.
Pair of mirror image 1-room plan cottages.
2 storeys, symmetrical 4-window front. Central open porch with slate lean-to roof
with hipped ends supported by low stone rubble walls which are surmounted by the
original rustic timber posts which have chamfered edges with run-out stops at top and
bottom. Plank door on left and C20 stable door on right with tall thin C19 single-
light casements between. 2-light casement to left and 3-light casement to right,
both beneath segmental dressed stone arches. First floor with 2 gabled half-dormers
with Cl9 3-light casements with 2 C19 2-light casements between. C20 extension on
right-hand gable end.
Interior not inspected.
Exterior of cottages largely unaltered since late C19. See early photographs in
National Monuments Record, Savile Row, London.
Listing NGR: SX2336854495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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