FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311695
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225
Statutory Address:: FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311695
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER PILCHARD NET FISHING CELLARS AND WINCHES AT APPROX 50 AND 70M TO SOUTHEAST AT SW 654 225

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gunwalloe
National Grid Reference:: SW6538322578

Details

SW 62 SE 3/35

GUNWALLOE Former pilchard net fishing cellars and winches at approx 50 and 70m to southeast at SW 654 225

(Formerly listed as Former pilchard net fishing cellars and winches at approx 50 and 70m to south at SW 654 225)

22.9.75

GV II

Seine net barking cellars with temporary and seasonal accommodation for fisherman, now roofless. Circa 1803, extended circa 1840's and again before 1874 and including 3 iron winches to south. Serpentine rubble walls some dressed granite sills and lintels and some wooden lintels. Scantle slate roof removed circa 1950's. Original building gable ends standing but brick chimneys on seaward gable fallen. Plan: original 2 room plan building, right (partition removed) originally with workroom left, with large fireplace surviving and possibly net store, right, with accommodation over but floor since removed. Extended by single storey lean-to at left after 1840 (not shown on tithe map) and this room was widened before 1874. Main hearth flue adapted for iron copper for barking nets probably at the same time and further barking cauldron fitted to former workroom of building circa 1920's. 2 storeys. 1 and 2 window south front. Original symmetrical, but without front doorway, 2 window front at right; and later extensions at left with ground and first floor windows adjoining original left-hand gable end. 2-window openings at left-hand gable, with brick jambs, ground floor one wider. Wide ground floor doorway and window opening over at right-hand original gable end. Further doorways at ground and first floor rear of extension, roughly midway; presumably to allow independent access to first floor store. Interior retains much evidence of former use: large fireplace with granite lintel in former workroom; outer brick walling of Seine net copper and sloping brick floor in left hand part and trough in floor of workroom near hearth. Another flue in far left gable end. Some ceiling beams survive in left hand room otherwise only sockets remain indicating former beam positions. Mortar remains at window jambs of building suggest deep frames of either vertical or horizontal sliding sashes. Winches circa late C19 are of cast iron and are fairly complete including drums, bearings, cogs and ratchets. The one nearest the building was salvaged from the steam coal carrying steamship, Branklow, wrecked at Gunwalloe in 1890. It is said that much coal was salvaged but that it burned through the local iron grates. The winches were used to haul the Seine boats part of the way up the cliff to protect them from the sea between fishing sessions, and the Seine nets themselves, of great lengths, and said to last up to 60 years if barked and repaired annually, were hauled in using large wooden manually-operated capstans also up on the cliff. The capstans don't survive, only circular impressions of where they once stood. 'A pilchard fishery was established at Gunwalloe in 1803, ... referred to as the Alert pilchard seine ... this eligible concern comprises 2 compleat seans, with Boats and all other necessary materials, a large loft or buildings for the seaners to lodge in during the season, and a Capstan & Rope compleat. Extracted from CORNISH SEINES AND SEINERS by Cyril Noall, also the course of much of the other information.

Listing NGR: SW6538322578

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Legacy System number:: 65194
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Noall, C, Cornish Seines and Seiners, (1972)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.