Well House
WELL HOUSE, 31 AND 33, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219010
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Well House
- Statutory Address:
- WELL HOUSE, 31 AND 33, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219010
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Well House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL HOUSE, 31 AND 33, 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:
- WELL HOUSE, 31 AND 33, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1263351784
Details
SX 15 SW FOWEY FORE STREET, Fowey
(North West side)
868-0/2/102
Nos. 31 AND 33 Well House
(Formerly Listed as: FOWEY
11/03/7 4 FORE STREET
(North West side) Nos.31 AND
33)
GV II
Merchant's house. Probably C16, front remodelled probably mid C19. MATERIALS: painted rubble front with shallow segmental arches over the openings; slate roof. PLAN: U-shaped plan including rear wings, the left-hand wing deeper. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Mid C19 12-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor, later 4-pane horned sashes above. Ground floor has 3 doorways, at far left and right and right of centre; old panelled and glazed doors; small 2-light casement window under left-hand windows. INTERIOR: includes a C16 coffered ceiling with heavy moulded oak beams to 1st-floor chamber; there are chamfered cross beams to ground floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: built into retaining wall of old quarried face at rear is a well house with a C16 or C17 moulded basket-arched doorway.
Listing NGR: SX1263351784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70745
- 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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