Smugglers Cottage Ye Old Cottage
SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205164
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers Cottage Ye Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205164
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers Cottage Ye Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, 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:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Looe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2524253177
Details
LOOE
SX2453 FORE STREET, West Looe
857-1/4/79 (South side)
19/03/51 Ye Old Cottage and Smugglers Cottage
GV II
2 houses (probably originally one house), at end of row plus
former boathouse at rear of Ye Old Cottage. C17.
MATERIALS: painted rubble walls many original oak lintels;
steep asbestos slate roof; external front rubble lateral stack
heightened with brick; external rubble stack on right and
another stack to rear.
PLAN: 3-room and through-passage plan with later outshut at
rear right and boathouse/net loft extension at right angles to
rear left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. Original 2-light
internally chamfered oak mullioned windows to 2nd floor with
mid C18 casements with thick glazing bars; otherwise later
casements except for rare early/mid C18 16-pane hornless sash
with thick glazing bars left of doorway and to hall bay right
of integral stack right of doorway. Further doorway right of
this; both doorways with slate hoods on original carved oak
brackets; C20 doors.
Right-hand return has small C17 2-light oak mullioned window
with diagonally-set stanchions, also an C18 20-pane 2-light
casement with thick glazing bars, the top cut down to form
margin panes. Rear has mid C18 stair sash with thick glazing
bars.
INTERIOR: original oak floor joists, most roughly chamfered
but those of central 1st-floor chamber square-edged and
originally for a plaster ceiling, presumably the best chamber;
original fireplaces with chamfered oak lintels except hall
fireplace with ovolo-moulded lintel; original rear of former
passage door with moulded and studded planks with C20 glazing
to top; original stair projection at rear of hall with
chamfered oak doorway, blocked to higher end (Smugglers
Cottage); C18 stairs with panelled dado with ramps; 2nd
staircase to upper floors of Smugglers Cottage is a C18 winder
stair with borrowed light; C18 panelling to left-hand
1st-floor chamber and many C18 2-panel doors with HL hinges.
Roof structure is late C18 or early C19 with pegged trusses.
Listing NGR: SX2524253177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376398
- 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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