THE OLD POST OFFICE WHITEWALLS COTTAGE

THE OLD POST OFFICE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141511
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WHITEWALLS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE

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Date:: 2002-07-11
Reference:: IOE01/07947/10
Rights:: © Mr Donald McCulloch. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141511
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WHITEWALLS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 2:: WHITEWALLS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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:: THE OLD POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: WHITEWALLS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Agnes
National Grid Reference:: SW7439650607

Details

ST AGNES MITHIAN SW 75 SW 4/175 The Old Post Office No 1 Whitewalls Cottage and No 2 Whitewalls Cottage. - GV II

Row of probably 4 cottages originally, now 2 houses. Rendered cob, wooden lintels. Wheat reed thatched roof. Brick chimneys over gable ends and over party wall towards right. Outbuilt stack on the right. Plan: Probably originally three 1-room plan cottages, extended in the later C18 with 1-room plan cottage with its front slightly set back, on the right. Probably some C20 remodelling of the plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. Virtually unaltered overall slightly irregular 5-window front. Doorways towards left and right of middle and blocked doorway towards the right. Circa early C19 16-pane sash left of middle doorway; old 18-pane 3-light casement and wider 24-pane 4-light casement above to front of right-hand cottage, otherwise probably C20 12-pane 2-light casements. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7439650607

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Legacy System number:: 63805
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.