St Anthony Cottage including front garden wall and gate posts

4 Fore Street, Constantine, Falmouth, TR115AB

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A mid-C19 cottage constructed of granite. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159395
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: St Anthony Cottage including front garden wall and gate posts
Statutory Address:: 4 Fore Street, Constantine, Falmouth, TR115AB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159395
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Sep-2018
List Entry Name:: St Anthony Cottage including front garden wall and gate posts
Statutory Address 1:: 4 Fore Street, Constantine, Falmouth, TR115AB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 4 Fore Street, Constantine, Falmouth, TR115AB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Constantine
National Grid Reference:: SW7339128998

Summary

A mid-C19 cottage constructed of granite.

Reasons for Designation

St Anthony Cottage and front boundary walls, a mid-C19 dwelling, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a neatly-designed mid-C19 cottage well-built using Cornish granite it is a good example of the regional vernacular traditions of the period; * it retains a good historic interior including original features such as windows, stair, fireplaces and some joinery; * unaltered modest cottages of this period are relatively uncommon, both in this street and in the wider region, and St Anthony Cottage is a representative example of one that survives well.

History

St Anthony Cottage is part of a row of cottages of approximate mid-C19 date. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1907, broadly on its current footprint. The kitchen wing is thought to be a slightly later extension of the main range.

Part of the ground floor of the cottage served as a shop in the late C19/early C20. The building has had some adaptation in the C20 including the construction of a replacement rear conservatory and a projecting front porch.

Details

A mid-C19 cottage, part of a row, extended to the rear in the C19 and with later alterations.

MATERIALS: constructed of granite rubble with a coursed and dressed granite front. The main roof has gable ends abutting the adjoining houses and is covered in asbestos slate. There is a brick stack at the left hand gable end and another to the later rear roof.

PLAN: the cottage faces north and is single-depth in plan with two rooms and a central entrance with a lateral stair to the rear (the partition wall between the two front rooms has been removed). There is an additional slightly later C19 single-room plan kitchen wing to the rear with a gable end stack. At the rear of the wing is a C20 lean-to conservatory.

EXTERIOR: of two storeys with a symmetrical two-bay front. The façade has relatively large C19 sashes with margin glazing and horns. There are dressed granite lintels to the ground floor windows and slate cills. Attached to the central doorway is a C20 projecting porch constructed of granite below a glazed timber frame under a slate roof. There is a modern slate step into the porch and a C19 granite step into the cottage. The inner east side of the rear wing has a margin-glazed sash on each floor similar to those at the front and a plank door with an overlight to the right.

INTERIOR: the front room has a wide granite fireplace and chimneybreast at the east end and a smaller granite fireplace with mantel to the west wall. The lateral stair at the rear of the room has stick balusters and a turned newel that has been modified. The rear wall has an arched granite opening to the kitchen. To the ceiling are exposed machine-sawn joists. In the end wall of the kitchen is a granite fireplace and chimneybreast. Timber cupboards around the stair may be C19/ early-C20, and the C19 joinery around the front windows has C20 adaptations and includes deep reveals, rebated shutters and window seats. To the first floor there are C19 doors to bedrooms and there is a C19 cast-iron fireplace to one room. The roof structures have had some common rafters replaced in the later C20.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front garden has a dressed granite dwarf wall along the pavement with small monolithic rusticated granite gate-posts at the centre. The post at the east end may be a later replacement. The gate and railings over the dwarf wall are modern. There is a decorative path from the gateway to the front door, which may partly underlie the modern porch.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 66079
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Moore, E (Compiler), Trethowan, G (Compiler), The Book of Constantine, (2001)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.