The Cottage
THE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142201
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142201
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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 COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Germoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 58543 29451
Details
SW 52 NE GERMOE CHURCHTOWN, Germoe
6/227 The Cottage
GV II
Small house. Circa early C18. Granite rubble with partly dressed granite moorstone quoins, jambstones and lintels; slate sills. Asbestos slate roof (originally thatched) with granite chimneys over the gable ends; the right hand chimney heightened with brick. 2 room plan with wider hall/kitchen left, parlour right, with lobby and straight flight stair between. Extended with lean-to at the rear in the C19, now replaced with new lean-to (1986). The kitchen has a large fireplace with bread oven and fringle, the parlour has a C19 stone fireplace built in front of the original parlour fireplace. There is a blocked doorway in the front wall near the kitchen fireplace, possibly this house was a village bakehouse. 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 3 window west front with doorway and window over slightly right of middle. The ground floor left hand window is near the doorway and farther to the left is a blocked doorway. Circa early C20 glazed porch in front of the main doorway. C20 door. The windows are 6-pane horned sashes, copies of replaced circa late C19 sashes. Interior has most carpentry and joinery replaced in 1986 but some C19 beams retained. The kitchen fireplace opening is spanned by a thick oak lintel.
Listing NGR: SW5854329455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65906
- 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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