Walls at Place
Walls at Place, Fowey, PL23 1BS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144302
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Walls at Place
- Statutory Address:
- Walls at Place, Fowey, PL23 1BS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144302
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Walls at Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- Walls at Place, Fowey, PL23 1BS
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:
- Walls at Place, Fowey, PL23 1BS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 12507 51723
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 October 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SX 15 SW
868-0/2/64
FOWEY
FOWEY
Walls at Place
(Formerly listed as Walls at Place House, previously listed as FOWEY Walls at Place House to the south and east of house)
11/03/74
GV
II*
Perimeter walls of Place House (qv). C15 and C16, remodelled c1840. Killas rubble and granite ashlar with dressed granite battlements, ramped where there are changes in level. Four-centred arched granite doorways: original moulded doorway with carved spandrel's and square hoodmould to pedestrian gate into Church Avenue and C19 doorway with sunk spandrels to carriage entrance into Cobb Well Hill. Prominent position within the centre of the old town.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cornwall: London: 1990-: 70 & 71 ).
Listing NGR: SX1250851722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1951), 70 and 71
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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