Arch House
ARCH HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282858
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Arch House
- Statutory Address:
- ARCH HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282858
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Arch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARCH HOUSE, FORE 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:
- ARCH HOUSE, FORE 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:
- SX2552153300
Details
LOOE
SX2453 FORE STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/7 (West side)
19/03/51 Arch House
GV II
Town house. C17. Painted slatehanging on timber-frame to
front, originally jettied; hipped asbestos slate rear wing
with lateral rubble stack on the left. Double-depth plan plus
2 short rear wings at right-angles, wing straddling ope
(passage). 3 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. Unusual
early C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars: on the left pairs
of tripartite sashes; on the right a pair of 16-pane sashes
over a pair of 16-pane sashes plus pair of central sidelights.
Ground floor has wide through-passage (ope) towards left;
central house doorway and two C20 shop fronts; a small shop
window left of the ope and within ope and larger shop front
with glazing bars on the right. INTERIOR: original oak beam
and joist ceiling visible to ope with ovolo-moulded bressummer
set back from front proving former jetty. Rear has C20 window
over late C18 or early C19 30-pane hornless sash.
Listing NGR: SX2552153300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376378
- 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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