LOWER CORY

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278375
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: LOWER CORY
Statutory Address:: LOWER CORY

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

Not all listed places are appearing on this map. We are investigating this issue and will have a fix in place as soon as we can. Updated: 6 February 2025.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278375
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: LOWER CORY
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER CORY

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LOWER CORY

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Morwenstow
National Grid Reference:: SS2162016311

Details

SS 21 NW MORWENSTOW

1/72 Lower Cory -

- II

House, formerly farmhouse. Early C16 or earlier origins, C17 alterations, some C20 alterations. Stone rubble, porch masonry brought to course, scantle slate roof, right gable end chimney local brick, left gable end chimney stone with moulded cap, some C19 brick dressings, some polyphant dressings. Complex development. Probably a small medieval open hall house extended in the C17 when the 2-storey front projection was added. There may have been a parlour at the higher end, now missing. The lower end now consists of 2 rooms divided by a stair hall with a late C17/early C18 stair, stair hall may have been a through passage between the lower end service rooms and the extended hall. Present plan single depth, 3 rooms wide with rear right outshut under catslide roof. 2-storey front right projection contains porch and stair, forming L plan with main range. 2 storeys. 3 + 1 window front with gabled 2-storey projection at right front. Entrance into projection through off centre square-headed chamfered stone doorway with carved label stops, hoodmould missing. Further entrance into stair hall under late C20 storm porch with sloping slate roof. Ground floor windows under flat brick arches: left, 16-pane late C19 sash; to right of storm porch, 2-light C20 casement, 6 panes per light; above storm porch, 2-light C19 casement, 8 panes per light; to left of gabled projection, 2-light C19 casement, 8 panes per light. First floor windows: left, 2-light C19 casement, 6 panes per light; to left of gabled projection, 2- light C20 casement, 4 panes per light. 2-light hollow-chamfered polyphant mullioned window above main entrance, small stair light to right of mullioned window. Remains of mullioned window in left return of projection. Two 2-light timber mullioned windows to rear left of house at first floor level. 3-light polyphant mullioned window with hoodmould and label stops on ground floor in left gable end. Interior. Ground floor room right has large fireplace with chamfered fireplace beam with runout stops. Ground floor room left has ceiling beams and large fireplace. Large recess with seat on rear wall, no evidence of former window found during renovations. Late C17/early C18 dogleg stair with ramped handrail and turned balusters. First floor room left has similar recess in rear wall; fireplace with chamfered fireplace beam with step ogee stops. Middle first floor room has moulded timber cornice. Principals in first floor rooms at lower end indicate roof raised. Front right projection contains stone newel stair. 2 smoke-blackened trusses with collars pegged and halved into principals at higher end.

Listing NGR: SS2162016311

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 64883
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.