Chestnut Cottage
CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159496
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 1 AND 2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159496
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 1 AND 2
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:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 75201 27776
Details
SW 72 NE CONSTANTINE PORTH NAVAS
9/106 Nos 1 and 2, Chestnut Cottage -
GV II
Pair of cottages and shop. Circa late C18 extended in circa early-mid C19 and with circa early C20 shop added. Local shale rubble with granite dressings ; the first floor of the rear wing is plastered cob ; whitewashed side walls and rear wing ; the rear wall and the first floor of the front is hung with scantle slates. Grouted scantle slate hipped roof with red clay ridge tiles and deep eaves; gable ended rear wing with scantle slate roof. Rendered brick shafts to side stacks and gable end stack of rear wing. Plan: Overall L-shape plan. The early to mid C19 range (No. 2) has a double depth plan with 2 small principal front rooms on either side of a central entrance passage with a straight stair at the back. At the back there are shallow service rooms. The left-hand back room is actually one of the 2 rooms of an earlier (circa late C18) 2- room plan cottage which has been incorporated into the early to mid C19 house as a rear wing. The rear wing (No. 1) is now a separate cottage and may have always been so. In circa early C20 a small lean-to shop was built on the right-hand side of the building. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window south east front ; the first floor is slate hung and has diamond-shape panels between the windows with fishscale pattern slate hanging. Early to mid C19 16-pane sashes with slate cills. Central doorway, probably the C19 panelled door but boarded over, the top panels glazed. The rear wing is entirely slate hung and has one small early to mid C19 16-pane sash as each floor to the right and a larger early mid C19 16-pane sash in the splay in the angle to the left over the C19 glazed and panelled back door. To the left the inner face of the rear wing has a small circa early to mid C19 ground floor and later C19 first floor 16-pane sash, the one on the ground floor has a dressed granite lintel and jambs ; to the right a recessed C19 plank door also under the first floor splay in the angle with the main range. Including the circa early C20 lean-to shop front on the right-hand side of the main range. It has an original 8-pane shop window on the front with a plank door to the left with louvres above and weatherboarded in the gable. Interior: An early to mid C19 straight staircase with a turned newel and moulded handrail. C20 chimneypieces.
Listing NGR: SW7520127776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66090
- 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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