The Jolly Sailor Inn
THE JOLLY SAILOR INN, PRINCES SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205616
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Jolly Sailor Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE JOLLY SAILOR INN, PRINCES SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205616
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Jolly Sailor Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE JOLLY SAILOR INN, PRINCES SQUARE
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:
- THE JOLLY SAILOR INN, PRINCES SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Looe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2532253218
Details
LOOE
SX2453 PRINCES SQUARE, West Looe
857-1/4/91 (South side)
19/03/51 The Jolly Sailor Inn
GV II
House, now public house. C16 or C17.
MATERIALS: render on rubble; dry slate roof with 5 original
crested clay ridge tiles, taller roof over later wing on the
left has C17 ridge tile with horse and rider; compare similar
tiles to Islander Cottage, Fore Street (qv) and No.4 The Bay
(Chubbs House) (qv), East Looe; rendered rubble stacks;
external front lateral stack and end stack on the right.
PLAN: 3-room and through-passage plan with later hall and
parlour window bays.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with 1st-floor windows under raking
dormers mostly above eaves line; 3-window range. C20 windows:
2-light casements to 1st floor left and centre; wider 3-light
casement to hall and 1st floor right, transomed casements to
left and right. Doorway immediately left of lateral stack with
door and old slate hood; quadrant oven projection right of
stack. Rear has blocked passage doorway and 3 small window
openings; some evidence of old alterations.
Later 3-storey wing on left; 2-window range with mid C19
4-pane hornless sashes.
INTERIOR: original chamfered oak ceiling joists (extended to
window bays); hall fireplace at angle to room; some reused
ships' timbers for later support.
Listing NGR: SX2532253218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376436
- 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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