The Cobweb

THE COBWEB, THE HARBOUR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1239728
Date first listed:
20-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
The Cobweb
Statutory Address:
THE COBWEB, THE HARBOUR
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1239728
Date first listed:
20-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
The Cobweb
Statutory Address 1:
THE COBWEB, THE HARBOUR

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
THE COBWEB, THE HARBOUR

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Forrabury and Minster
National Grid Reference:
SX1001191279

Details

FORRABURY AND THE HARBOUR, Boscastle
SX 19 SW MINSTER

2/69 The Cobweb
GV II
Store converted to public house. Circa C18 converted in 1945. Slate stone rubble with
brick dressings. Cement washed slate roof with hipped end to front and gable end to
rear. Central rendered brick stack on ridge.
Almost square in plan with loading doors originally in right hand side. Converted to
public house and partitioned to form two large bars on ground floor.
3 storeys and attic. Front elevation to road with C20 fenestration in partly blocked
openings on ground floor, C19 sashes on first floor and C20 casements in second.
Blocked openings above. Right hand side elevation with steps up to entrance in first
floor. C19 and C20 fenestration and loading doors with remains of teagle hoist to top
floor. Left hand side elevation with C19 and C20 fenestration.
Interior figurehead from 'The Welm' which was wrecked on Black Rock in 1890.
Warehouse and office of William Sloggatt (qv Penally Home).


Listing NGR: SX1001191279

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
68733
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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