The Cottage
THE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143549
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143549
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- 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:
- St. Teath
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0707380619
Details
ST TEATH KNIGHTSMILL
SX 08 SE
4/166 The Cottage
-
II
House. Circa mid C17 to early C18. Rendered cob on slate rubble footings. Rag
slate roof with gabled end on left and hipped end on right. Lower corrugated
asbestos roof to single storey outshot on left and slate roof to lean-to outshot on
right. Large stone rubble stack on left hand gable end.
Plan: The house is build along a steep slope and faces south.
Two room plan with entrance probably originally to right of centre, leading directly
into large hall kitchen heated by gable end stack. Smaller unheated room to right
partitioned probably with timber screen. Extended in circa mid C18 with outshot
extension on left hand gable end and lean-to outshot added on right hand end in circa
C19. The entrance was moved to the right possibly also in the C19. In circa mid C20
the internal partition was removed to form one large room and the front wall of the
extension to left was rebuilt.
Exterior : Two storeys. Ground slopes down to right and the extension to the left is
built into the bank. C20 2-light casement to left, C20 part glazed door to right and
C20 2-light casement on first floor. Rear elevation with C20 2-light and 3-light
casement and 4-pane casement to outshot extension.
Interior: Circa C19 stair with square newel and stick balusters and circa C19
ceiling beams. C20 fireplace built in front of earlier fireplace which has a timber
lintel.
The site of the original stair may have been to the side of the fireplace. Roof not
fully accessible but the purlins are deeply trenched.
Listing NGR: SX0707380619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68606
- 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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