Hill Street Wren Cottage
HILL STREET, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143507
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Street Wren Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILL STREET, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-11-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05674/10
- Rights:
- © Mr N. E. Ward. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143507
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Street Wren Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL STREET, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WREN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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:
- HILL STREET, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WREN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Forrabury and Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0995790703
Details
FORRABURY AND FORE STREET (west side), Boscastle
SW 09 90 MINSTER
7/46 Wren Cottage and Hill Street
17.12.62
GV II
Probably one house divided into 2 cottages. Circa C17. Rendered and painted stone
rubble. Bitumen coated and cement washed rag slate roof with gable ends. Stone
rubble chimney stacks on gable ends.
Original plan uncertain; possibly house of single depth plan with two rooms heated by
end stacks. The position of the entrance is uncertain and the shallow projection on
front left may have been a 2-storey porch and a stair projection. Divided into 2
cottages in circa C18 or early C19: each of one room plan. C20 extensions on left
hand gable end and to rear right.
2-storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, central range set forward with half dormer
disposed to left. C20 door to left, central range has 12-pane sash and C19 2-light
sliding sash and range to right with part glazed C20 stable-type door and C19 2-light
casement. First floor; C19 2-light sliding sash in gable end of central range and C19
2-light casement adjoining. C19/C20 2-light casement to right.
Interior of Hill Cottage on left partly remodelled in C20 with ceiling beams replaced
and C20 fireplace. Several keeping holes survive. Roof space not accessible and feet
of principals rafters boxed in. Interior of Wren Cottage on right with C18 bowtell
moulded ceiling beams to right. Roof structure possibly C18 although full inspection
not accessible.
Forms part of picturesque group in Fore Street, Boscastle.
Listing NGR: SX0995790703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68708
- 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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