Slipway Hotel

SLIPWAY HOTEL, 1, CHURCH HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219476
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1969
List Entry Name:
Slipway Hotel
Statutory Address:
SLIPWAY HOTEL, 1, CHURCH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219476
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Slipway Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
SLIPWAY HOTEL, 1, CHURCH 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:
SLIPWAY HOTEL, 1, CHURCH HILL

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Endellion
National Grid Reference:
SW 99652 80728

Details

SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION CHURCH HILL, (east side), Port Isaac 9/21 No 1 Slipway Hotel (previously 6.6.69 listed as the Slipway House) GV II Chandlers, now hotel. Circa early C19 with datestone possibly indicating date of 1827. Rendered and painted stone rubble with cement-washed rag slate roof with hipped ends and brick chimney stacks in hipped ends. Plan altered. Reputed to have been a chandlers with shop front on rear elevation. Rectangular plan considerably altered to form hotel with original shop premises now gutted. 3 storeys on front elevation and 2 storeys to rear as ground rises. Front elevation to harbour with C20 extension on ground floor, C20 French windows above opening onto balcony with C19 16-pane sashes above and possibly C19 raked full dormer to attic. Side elevation to Church Hill with blocked entrance in ground floor and stone rubble steps with wrought iron railings rising up to C20 door to first floor. Blocked window openings on left and C19 sashes to right. Datestone above door possibly '1827' although owner suggests '1527'. Far right with large blocked opening, probably for C19 shop window with probable loading door above. Rear elevation with complete C19 shop front with 2 large 20-pane shop windows with heavy glazing bars and incised pilasters flanking C19 double doors with moulded cornice above. First floor with C19 30-pane sash above on left and blocked opening above on right. Side elevation to stream with possibly C19 canted bay window with heavy glazing bars. Interior Chandlers to rear largely gutted, floor raised and first floor partly removed. Central range largely intact with C19 chimney piece and doorcases. C19 softwood staircases with stick balusters. The Slipway Hotel, owned by Warwick Richard Guy in the C19 was a chandlers and general stores. It also sold coal and salt which was shipped in bulk and stored in the cellars below (Roscarrock Hill Methodist Church (qv.)) and in the cellar of a cottage in Church Hill. Winstanley, M High Tide in Port Isaac .1978.

Listing NGR: SW9965280728

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Legacy System number:
351350
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Winstanley, M, High Tide in Port Isaac the Life and Times of Warwick Richard Guy 1821-1905, (1978)

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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