Merlin Cottage
MERLIN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144250
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Merlin Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MERLIN COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144250
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Merlin Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERLIN 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:
- MERLIN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lanlivery
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1043357791
Details
LANLIVERY MILLTOWN
SX 15 NW
8/37 Merlin Cottage
-
II
House. Circa 1700 with some C20 alterations. Slatestone rubble, rendered and
painted, asbestos slate roof with gable ends and gable end stack to right, rear
lateral stack to left.
2-room plan, with central passage, the room to left slightly larger and heated by
rear lateral stack, the room to right heated by gable end stack. C19 straight stair
inserted in room to left. Entrance leads to passage. Lean-to, probably of C18,
added for service at left end.
2 storeys, with 2 small casements under eaves and one to right and left of doorway,
all of early C20; half-glazed door to passage and narrow door to left. Single storey
lean-to to left end with 2-light casement to front and slate roof. Right end has
external stack and C20 single storey addition. Rear has very large external
weathered and stepped stack heating room to left. No evidence of a door to rear of
passage. There appears to have been some rebuilding at the front, to the left of the
passage door where the wall is stepped forward.
Interior : Internal walls battered. Room to left has rear fireplace with plain C19
mantel. Room to right has 2-panelled shutters to window.
Listing NGR: SX1043357791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70789
- 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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