Hawker's Cottage, Front Garden Wall, Mounting Block and Gateway
HAWKER'S COTTAGE, FRONT GARDEN WALL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND GATEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141814
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Hawker's Cottage, Front Garden Wall, Mounting Block and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKER'S COTTAGE, FRONT GARDEN WALL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND GATEWAY
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- Date:
- 1999-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/00046/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141814
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Hawker's Cottage, Front Garden Wall, Mounting Block and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKER'S COTTAGE, FRONT GARDEN WALL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND GATEWAY
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:
- HAWKER'S COTTAGE, FRONT GARDEN WALL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND GATEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morwenstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS2091511780
Details
SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW COOMBE
3/90 Hawker's Cottage, front garden
29.9.61 wall, mounting block and gateway
GV II
House. C18 early C19 alterations. Whitewashed plastered cob, thatched wheat straw
roof gabled at left end, brick chimney at left gable end, further brick chimney on
ridge. Single depth 2 room plan with entrance into stair hall, small rear
projection. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with porch. Reused C17 round-
headed studded front door with high rail, cavetto moulded cover strips, and made to
suit another reused timber doorframe. Ground floor windows 16-pane hornless
sashes. First floor windows left and right similar sashes. First floor window
above porch partly blocked to form a crucifix of barred panes, casement below
centre of cross. Gabled timber porch made out of salvaged boards and C20 timber
battened roof boards. The porch sides splayed out.
Interior. Ground floor left has chamfered axial beam with straight cut stops.
Ground floor room right has 2 roughly-hewn cross beams. C20 fireplace. Chamfered
principals visible in upstairs rooms. Pieces of C17 panelling and remains of a
leaded window built into stair well. C19 gabled roof over timber gate set between
rubble stone front garden wall with stone toppers. Rough mounting block to right.
The cross-shaped window was designed by the Reverend R.S.Hawker, the poet,
antiquary and vicar of Morwenstow, (q.v. parish church and vicarage), who is said
to have spent his early married life in the house.
Listing NGR: SS2091511780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64896
- 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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