West Cottage
WEST COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230495
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WEST COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230495
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST COTTAGE, WEST 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:
- WEST COTTAGE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilkhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 25222 11392
Details
SS 21 SE KILKHAMPTON WEST STREET, KILKHAMPTON
4/28 West Cottage -
GV II
House. Early C16 origins, largely late C16/C17. 3 builds, right end added or rebuilt late C18/C19. Colourwashed rendered stone and cob, C18/C19 build colourwashed brick with painted, chamfered quoins probably reused slate roof, formerly thatched. Left gable and chimney local brick, brick chimneys to right gable end and lateral stack on front. Evidence of open hall plan, complex development. Present plan 3 rooms and through-passage, thick cob wall between passage and former lower end, and lower roof line suggests 2 late C16/C17 builds. Front facade, facing churchyard, 2 storey. 3 renewed ground floor casements and 4 first floor similar casements, each 2 light with 2 panes per light. Rear to West Street, has 6 pane opening in C18/C19 build, 6 pane opening to left of stack, 2 pane opening to right of porch. 6 panel door to right of stack under slated pent roof carried on C17 brackets. First floor window on West Street front is 2 light casement, 2 panes per light. Lower end ground floor room has large fireplace with fireplace beam, slate floor and boxed in stone stair against wall facing churchyard. Doorcase to through passage has roll moulding on lintel, 3 plank door. Doorcase to central room has panelled soffit. Central room has chamfered cross beam, large fireplace with slightly chamfered granite lintel, stair against through passage wall. Doorcase with panelled soffit into ground floor room at higher end. Higher end room has large fireplace with fireplace beam. First floor rooms have variety of C18 doors, 1 very large with 6 fielded panels, rehung. 3 smoke blackened trusses above lower end ridge replaced, apex halved and pegged, trenched purlins, 1 bay smaller than the other. No smoke blackening in lower end side of cob wall. 2 trusses above central room, probably raised crucks, threaded ridge, collar mortised into principals, 1 collar missing. No smoke blackening on truss, but smoke blackening on cob wall. Trusses presumably replaced. House was 3 tenements in the C19. Quoins and the large door with fielded panels possibly reused from Stowe, built 1679, demolished 1739. Group value with parish church.
Listing NGR: SS2522111393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64839
- 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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