Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)

Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower), Church End

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1201098
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)
Statutory Address:: Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower), Church End

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1201098
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)
Statutory Address 1:: Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower), Church End

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Location

Statutory Address:: Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower), Church End

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Looe
National Grid Reference:: SX2560453131

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 30 May 2024 to amend details in the description, name and address and reformat the text to current standards

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LOOE East Looe CHURCH END Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)

(Formerly listed as Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed)

17/09/73

GV II

Former lifeboat house and watchtower, now in commercial use. c1860.

MATERIALS: Rubble with granite quoins and red-brick arches and flush strings; dry slate roofs with projecting eaves with exposed moulded rafter ends and purlins; crested red ridge-tiles.

PLAN: T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: Italianate style. Two-storey tower, single-storey lifeboat shed. Round-arched single-light windows except group of three lights to first-floor front of tower; large three-light transomed window under segmental arch to rear end of lifeboat house; front doorway under similar arch with original transomed fanlight over part-glazed doors; oculae to tower gables.

INTERIOR: Simple where inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2560453131

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Legacy System number:: 376369
Legacy System:: LBS

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