Huer's House
HUER'S HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144136
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Huer's House
- Statutory Address:
- HUER'S HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144136
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Huer's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUER'S HOUSE
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:
- HUER'S HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newquay
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8067262386
Details
NEWQUAY
SW 86 SW
5/105 Huer's House
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24.10.51
II*
Huer's house. Probably late C18-early C19, with few later alterations. Painted
stone rubble with stone roof. Large stack with rubble shaft.
Plan: Small single storey building, roughly circular on plan, and with an external
stair at the rear. The tower is a stack, heating the room, which is open at the
front facing the sea.
Exterior: Single storey, with battlements. The front to the road has external
stair. The left side has central window with triangular head with hood mould;
diamond shaped opening to right and left, deeply splayed with small inner opening.
The right side has a pointed arched light set in raised surround, with similar
diamond-shaped opening to right and blocked window with cill and dripstone to left.
The rear faces the sea, and has splayed walls to each side of the wide opening. All
windows are unglazed, and the external stair leads to the roof.
Interior: The fireplace is partly blocked. The blocked window formerly had a
mullion with 2 unglazed lights.
The Huer's House was used as a look-out for the shoals of pilchards.
Sources: Pevsner, N.: Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.
Listing NGR: SW8067262386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71109
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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