Weehouse Ye Old Cottage

WEEHOUSE, WEST LOOE HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201130
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Weehouse Ye Old Cottage
Statutory Address:
WEEHOUSE, WEST LOOE HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201130
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Weehouse Ye Old Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WEEHOUSE, WEST LOOE HILL
Statutory Address 2:
YE OLD COTTAGE, WEST LOOE HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WEEHOUSE, WEST LOOE HILL
Statutory Address:
YE OLD COTTAGE, WEST LOOE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Looe
National Grid Reference:
SX2520353178

Details

LOOE

SX2453 WEST LOOE HILL, West Looe
857-1/4/116 (North side)
17/09/73 Ye Old Cottage and Weehouse

GV II

House in row, now 2 houses. C16 or C17.
MATERIALS: painted rubble with oak lintels on left (Ye Old
Cottage); stucco on rubble to right; steep asbestos slate roof
with central rubble stack and brick end stacks plus truncated
original external rubble lateral stack.
PLAN: single-depth plan including rear stair projection left
of through passage and C18 wing at rear left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 4-window range. Left of lateral stack is
gabled 2-storey bay projection with slatehanging to 1st floor
and original squint slit window openings to ground floor of
returns. Late C19 or C20 2-light casements to Ye Old Cottage
(left) with 3-panes per light except for C20 16-pane casements
to projecting bay; planked door and window under shared lintel
left of projecting bay. Weehouse has original doorway fronting
through passage towards right and C19 4-pane hornless sash to
each floor on the right.
INTERIOR: C18 plank and muntin screen right of passage; some
original chamfered ceiling beams to Ye Old Cottage; stone
winder stair and one original truss with halved lapped and
dovetail joints to pegged collar.


Listing NGR: SX2520353178

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
376465
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.

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