Ye Old Cottage Ye Olde Cottage
YE OLD COTTAGE, BULLER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280647
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Old Cottage Ye Olde Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, BULLER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280647
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Old Cottage Ye Olde Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, BULLER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- YE OLDE COTTAGE, MIDDLE MARKET 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:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, BULLER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLD COTTAGE, LOWER MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE COTTAGE, MIDDLE MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Looe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2553653248
Details
LOOE
SX2453 MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/41 (South West side)
19/03/51 Ye Olde Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe
Ye Old Cottage)
GV II*
Probable merchant's house. Probably mid C16. (1450 on sign).
MATERIALS: painted rubble with 2 rendered timber-frame gables;
jettied over ground floor to front; slurried probable rag
slate roof; large external lateral rubble stack to right-hand
(Buller Street) side.
PLAN: shallow-depth double plot plan; gable end on to street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. Early C19
16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and to ground-floor
right; central doorway with C18 bowtell-moulded frame and
4-panel door; rare C18 or early C19 shop windows with fairly
thick glazing bars filling the space left of doorway. The deep
jetty is carried on unmoulded oak joists to an unmoulded
bressummer; some of the joists are old replacements. C20
casements central to gables. 8-pane 2-light casement to
right-hand return.
INTERIOR: original features include oak ceiling joists to
ground floor; oak roof structure with threaded purlins (much
repaired); winder stair to attic and unusual oak fireplace
lintel with scalloped roll decoration to right-hand chamber.
Listing NGR: SX2553653248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376428
- 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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