Former Reading Room and Wash House
FORMER READING ROOM AND WASH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159509
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Reading Room and Wash House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER READING ROOM AND WASH HOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05938/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159509
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Reading Room and Wash House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER READING ROOM AND WASH 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:
- FORMER READING ROOM AND WASH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7523127756
Details
SW 72 NE CONSTANTINE PORTH NAVAS
9/108 Former reading room and wash house
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GV II
Reading room and adjoining wash house, now used as stores. Circa mid to late C19.
Local shale rubble with granite dressings and red brick rear wall. Slate roof with
gable ends, deep eaves and red clay ridge tiles. Central red brick axial stack.
Plan: Long single depth rectangular single storey building of 2 rooms with a central
axial stack with back to back fireplaces heating the wash house to the left and the
reading room to the right. Both rooms have doorways at the front.
Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical front with 2 C19 6-pane horizontally pivotted
windows at the centre with slate cills ; and to the left and right of the front C19
doorways each with a plank door. At either gable end a C19 wooden chamfered and
transom window.
There are no windows in the rear wall which backs onto a small stream flowing into
the creek at Porth Navas.
Interior: The reading room has a small fireplace with a moulded granite shelf and a
decorated cast iron grate. The former wash-house to the left is said to have had a
copper boiler.
Listing NGR: SW7523127756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66092
- 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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