Lantau
LANTAU, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lantau
- Statutory Address:
- LANTAU, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lantau
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANTAU, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LANTAU, LOWER CHAPEL 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:
- LANTAU, HIGHER CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LANTAU, LOWER CHAPEL 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:
- SX2557853189
Details
LOOE
SX2453 HIGHER CHAPEL STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/20 (South side)
19/03/51 Lantau
GV II*
Formerly known as: House occupied by Mrs. Andrews HIGHER
CHAPEL STREET.
Probable merchant's house. Late C16/early C17.
MATERIALS: render on timber-frame jettied over ground floor;
steep pair of asbestos slate roofs with gables end on to
street and with original oak central pendants and valley
pendant; taller roof of main range behind with rear wall and
side walls of rendered rubble; external lateral stacks; one to
left-hand return and one to rear centre, all truncated.
PLAN: double-depth plan including rear range.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Original oriel windows on
carved brackets to 1st floor with pentice roof over; original
ovolo-moulded sills and mullions; later 4-pane casements; 2
small C20 windows to gables. Ground floor has early C19
casement with glazing bars on the left; central doorway and
outer frame (rendered) of original granite mullioned window on
the right.
Rear has 2 gabled dormers; Original wide doorway to left with
original 6-panel moulded door in original ovolo-moulded frame.
INTERIOR: original splayed fireplace without lintel to rear
centre; chamfered and stopped oak cross beams; mast newel
stair (with replaced treads) moulded muntin and plank
partitions to part of 1st floor and attic; small panelling to
left-hand side of 1st-floor rear left chamber; oak roof
structure with threaded purlins and lapped dovetail collar
joints to front wings; truss feet only visible to main roof;
corbelled fireplace with chamfered oak lintel to left of main
attic, and c1700 bolection-moulded chimneypiece with early C19
hob grate.
Listing NGR: SX2557853189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376403
- 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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