Wharf Cottage
WHARF COTTAGE, DRUXTON WHARF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161901
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHARF COTTAGE, DRUXTON WHARF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161901
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHARF COTTAGE, DRUXTON WHARF
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:
- WHARF COTTAGE, DRUXTON WHARF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Werrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 34141 88310
Details
WERRINGTON CROSSGATE SX 38 NW 9/296 Wharf Cottage, Druxton Wharf - GV II
House, later wharfinger's cottage, now a private house. Probably C17 or early C18. Painted stone rubble and cob with cob walls to outshut. Scantle slate roof with hipped ends. Brick end stacks. Plan: Two room and cross or through passage plan heated by end stacks. Circa C18 lean-to service outshut added across rear. Exterior: Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with complete C19 casements with crown glass. Central C19 6-panel door with slate hood flanked by two 3-light casements. First floor with central 2-light casement flanked by two 3-light casements. Interior: Not inspected. The house was used by the wharfinger after the opening of Bude Canal in 1823. It stands close to the now filled in canal basin of Duxton Wharf. The former stable and warehouse to the north west are not inspected. Rendell, J. The Storey of The Bude Canal, 1987.
Listing NGR: SX3414188310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68185
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rendell, J, The Story of the Bude Canal, (1987)
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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