Coastgaurds Rocket House
COASTGAURDS ROCKET HOUSE, BRITISH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141535
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coastgaurds Rocket House
- Statutory Address:
- COASTGAURDS ROCKET HOUSE, BRITISH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141535
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coastgaurds Rocket House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COASTGAURDS ROCKET HOUSE, BRITISH 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:
- COASTGAURDS ROCKET HOUSE, BRITISH ROAD
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:
- SW 72163 50619
Details
ST AGNES BRITISH ROAD, SW 75 SW 4/134 Coastguards Rocket House - (formerly listed as Coastguard 26.11.87 Equipment House) GV II
Coastguards station. 1893. Coursed killas with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roof with projecting verges at the gable ends and exposed rafter ends under projection eaves. Tall stone lateral stack over right-hand side wall. Plan: Rectangular plan with carriage house on the ground floor and work room above approached by 1-plan flight of stone steps on the left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations. Original doors and windows. Symmetrical north east front gable end has wide central 4-centred arched doorway with hoodmould and 3-light canted oriel window over. Left-hand side wall is a 2-window entrance front with central first-floor doorway. Ledged door. 12-pane horned sashes. Mid- floor string. Window to ground floor left of stone steps, no window on the right. Steps are approached from the right and have a solid stone balustrade on the outer side and original iron handrail on the inner side. Under the right-hand side of the steps is a 4-centred arched niche probably for former water pump. Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW7216550621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63766
- 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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