The Old House and Minster Cottage
THE OLD HOUSE AND MINSTER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141745
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House and Minster Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE AND MINSTER COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141745
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House and Minster Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE AND MINSTER COTTAGE
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE AND MINSTER COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Manaccan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 76337 25046
Details
SW 72 NE MANACCAN MANACCAN
2/91 The Old House and Minster Cottage 15.1.70 (formerly listed as Donna House, GV Donna Annex and Minster Cottage) II
House, now house and cottage. C17, extended and remodelled in the C18 and C19. Shale rubble and cob walls, partly painted, some dressed granite jambstones and lintels. Asbestos slate roofs with gable ends. Brick chimneys over gable end, left, above external breast with oven projection, over gabled lateral stack to middle of front and brick chimneys to front and rear of cross wing, right. Original 3 room through passage plan. Lower room right of passage rebuilt in the C18 as wing projecting at the front; extended with front wing at right angles circa early C19, forming an overall U-shaped plan. 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window west front plus C20 window over left-hand doorway. Projecting blind gable end of circa early C19 wing, left, and projecting blind gable end of C18 cross wing, right. Main front has gable lateral stack right of middle. Original doorway with C20 doorway with C20 door right and window over in altered opening. Ground and first floor windows to left of stack, eaves heightened in the C18 or C19. Windows are 16-pane 2-light casements. Doorway near angle at left is presumably a C19 insertion when the house was divided. South wall of cross wing has 3 windows to ground and first floor circa early C19 16-pane hornless sashes except to widened C20 opening to ground floor left which has doorway, sidelights and hood. Interior has many C18 features: dado panelling to rear right room; many 2-panel doors, some bowtell moulded beams and a dog-leg closed-string column-turned baluster stair. Lateral fireplace in the hall has C17 straight chamfered and stopped oak lintel. C18 pegged roof structures, except above the chamber over the hall which has the feet of the C17 trusses projecting below ceiling level. This is the only house in the village with 3-room plan. Though altered in the C18, there are some good features of this period.
Listing NGR: SW7633725046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65255
- 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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