Chapel Keeper's House Immediately West of Methodist Church
CHAPEL KEEPER'S HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196316
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Keeper's House Immediately West of Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL KEEPER'S HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196316
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Keeper's House Immediately West of Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL KEEPER'S HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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:
- CHAPEL KEEPER'S HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porthleven
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 62947 25918
Details
HELSTON
SW6225 FORE STREET, Porthleven 631-1/6/256 (South East side) 22/05/90 Chapel-keeper's house immediately west of Methodist Church
GV II
Chapel-keeper's house. 1883. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings including plinth and mullioned windows, buttresses end corbels and dormer copings; grouted slate roof with projecting verges with pierced barge boards and chamfered collars; crested clay ridge tiles. Small rectangular plan. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space; symmetrical front with central gabled dormer over porch flanked by 2 ground-floor windows. End buttresses and buttressed porch with shouldered doorway with 4-pane overlight and framed door with V-jointed boards; 2-light windows including central windows to each gable end. INTERIOR not inspected. The Methodist Church (qv) and its keeper's house, including the site, were built at a cost of »3,500. (Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1902-1902: P. 273).
Listing NGR: SW6294725918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385476
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Cornwall, (1902), 273
Kellys Directory in Devonshire, (1902), 273
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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