The Quarry Cottage
THE QUARRY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310991
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Quarry Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUARRY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310991
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Quarry Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUARRY COTTAGE
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 QUARRY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 81478 42376
Details
SW 84 SW KEA
2/108 The Quarry Cottage
GV II
Lodge. Circa early-mid C19. Shale rubble walls with shallow brick arches. 1-shaped scantle slate roof with projecting eaves and verges at gable ends with serpentine shaped and pierced wooden bargeboards. Gabled porch and later outshut to rear. Rendered lateral brick chimneys with diagonally set shafts over original rear wall and further tall chimney over rear wall of outshut. Plan originally 2 rooms of kitchen/living-room left (west) and smaller parlour with bay window, right, and with stairs between. 2 service rooms added circa mid C19 to rear within single storey lean-to and heightened to make 2 further bedrooms circa late C19. 2 storeys. South front has projecting gable end, left, with central gable ended entrance porch and side wall of parlour set back to right with original 20-pane 2- light ground floor window. Entrance porch has central 4-centred arched brick doorway, and over porch rising partly into gable is further original 20-pane 2-light window. Right-hand gable end (east) has similar window to first floor and original 4-light bay window with slate roof to ground floor. All 4 original windows have deep chamfered frames and mullions. Interior is simple but little altered. Some beamed ceilings, cast iron range in back kitchen, and resited iron grate in original kitchen. Although extended this building still retains most of its architectural detail including the original windows, bargeboards etc.
Listing NGR: SW8147842376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63395
- 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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