The Coastguards Cottages
THE COASTGUARDS COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142268
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Coastguards Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THE COASTGUARDS COTTAGES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142268
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Coastguards Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COASTGUARDS COTTAGES
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 COASTGUARDS COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Breage
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55862 28125
Details
SW 52 NE BREAGE
6/7 The Coastguards' Cottages
GV II
Terrace of coastguards' cottages, now used as holiday cottages. Circa late C19. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, doorsteps, sills, jambstones and voussoirs over shallow arches. Hipped Delabole slate roof laid in diminishing courses with axial chimneys over main range with axial rendered brick chimneys. Slightly projecting eaves with gutters carried on iron brackets. Rectangular double depth plan terrace of cottages either one room or 2 rooms wide. The left hand cottage has 2 storey gable ended one room plan part with entrance set back from the main front wall; the second cottage is larger than the others with a central doorway and a room on either side; then 2 pairs of cottages each one room wide with paired entrances in the middle and an odd one room wide cottage with an entrance at the right hand end with dormered hoist doorway over. Two storeys. Overall 9 window front, probably original 6-pane horned sashes, ledged doors, all in original openings spanned by shallow segmental arches. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW5586228125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65696
- 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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