The Cornish Choughs Public House

THE CORNISH CHOUGHS PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142657
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1989
List Entry Name:
The Cornish Choughs Public House
Statutory Address:
THE CORNISH CHOUGHS PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142657
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1989
List Entry Name:
The Cornish Choughs Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE CORNISH CHOUGHS PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CORNISH CHOUGHS PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Camborne
National Grid Reference:
SW 63541 40392

Details

CAMBORNE CHURCH ROAD SW 64 SW (south side) 4/34 Treswithian The Cornish Choughs Public House II Public house. Probably later C18; altered. Coursed granite rubble with quoins, modern pantiled roof. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and 5 unequal bays; the 3-bay left half, which is symmetrical, has a central doorway protected by a small porch with monolithic jambs mounted on low walls and a simple monolithic pediment, two 16-pane unhorned sashed windows at ground floor and 3 above, all with raised sills and splayed lintels; the right-hand half has a central doorway with segmental head in a splayed lintel, a 2-storey canted bay to the left with 12- and 8-pane sashes, and a bow window to the right and a 16-pane sash above this, with a cambered lintel Gable chimneys, and a ridge chimney at the junction. Rear not inspected. Interior: rear room at left end has large stone fireplace with clockwork spit mounted over the mantel worked by weights in a built-in cupboard to the left, (etc.). History: said to have been used as staging post for packhorse drivers carrying tin ore to Hayle.

Listing NGR: SW6354140392

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
66579
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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