The Birdcage
THE BIRDCAGE, 11, ROSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291079
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIRDCAGE, 11, ROSE HILL
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- Date:
- 2004-11-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/13574/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291079
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIRDCAGE, 11, ROSE HILL
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:
- THE BIRDCAGE, 11, ROSE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Endellion
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9970480811
Details
SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION ROSE HILL, (north side),
Port Isaac
9/124 No 11 (The Birdcage)
6.6.69
GV II
House. Circa early to mid C19. Built by Valentine Powell Richards. Rendered and
painted stone rubble, partly slate-hung above ground floor with thicker stone rubble
walls on the more exposed seaward sides. Slate polygonal hipped roof.
1-room polyogonal plan with sides of unequal length.
3 storeys with C20 plank door on east and windows on west overlooking harbour with
replacement sash and small casement on ground floor, 12-pane horned sash on first and
C19 3/6-hornless sash on third.
Interior with unmoulded C19 ceiling beams, C20 chimney-piece to blocked fireplace on
ground floor and narrow softwood C19 stair.
The Birdcage is a rare survival of an unaltered 1-room plan. 3 storey detached
house.
Penna, R. A Walk Through Port Isaac 1984.
Listing NGR: SW9970480811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351456
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Penna, R, A Walk Through Port Isaac, (1984)
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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