SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL

SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL, RATTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312056
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL, RATTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312056
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL, RATTLE STREET

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SMUGGLERS HOUSE HOTEL, RATTLE STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Goran
National Grid Reference:: SX 01244 41578

Details

ST GORAN RATTLE STREET (north side), SX 0041 0141 Gorran Haven 5/125 Smugglers House Hotel - GV II

House, now hotel. Circa early C17, with additions of later C17 and alterations of C19 and C20. Stone rubble; rendered and painted. Slate roof with ridge tiles, gable end to left and hipped to right. Gable end stack to left with brick shaft, rear lateral stack to right with rubble and brick shaft. Plan: Three-room and cross passage plan; possibly originally a through passage. The lower end room is to left, heated from a gable end stack. The central room, to the right of the passage appears always to have been unheated. The upper end room to right is heated from a rear lateral stack. In the later C17, a stair tower was added to the rear of the passage. Probably circa late C17 - early C18, an unheated outshut of one storey with loft was added to rear right, abutting the stair tower. Probably in the C19 a single storey service wing was added to rear left. Exterior: storeys, an asymmetrical 5-window front. At ground floor, from the left, there is a C19 18-pane horizontal sliding sash, a recessed doorway with C19 half- glazed door, a C19 2-light 8-pane casement with the pintles remaining for external shutters and a C19 3-light 8-pane casement; ground floor windows have timber lintels. At first floor from the left there are two C19 2-light 8-pane casements, two late C19 4-pane sashes and a C19 2-light 8-pane casement. At attic level to left there is a C20 2-light 4-pane casement with slate cill. The left end is rendered, with external stack. The right end has two C20 windows at first floor to right. At the rear there is an external stack to left with C20 raking dormer to right of the stack. The outshut to left has C19 9-pane window and plank door, 4-pane window annd 2-light 2- pane casement. The stair tower is gabled, the upper level in rendered cob, with C19 2-light 2-pane casement. The rear service wing to right is single storey, with C20 door, 3-light 8-pane casement and plank stable-type door; corrugated asbestos monopitch roof. There is a small single storey stone rubble addition at the end with single window. Interior: At ground floor, the partition walls between the lower end room, the passage and the room to right have been removed, forming one large room. There are some roughly hewn chamfered beams remaining and some moulded replacement beams. At the left end, the fireplace has large roughly hewn cambered timber lintel with cloam oven to rear left. The front windows have deep splayed reveals. The room to end right has similar ceiling beams and rear lateral fireplace with roughly hewn timber lintel. There is a cupboard under the stair with a plank door with H hinges. The stair is a dog-leg, rebuilt, and continues up to attic level. At first floor the rooms are divided by stud partitions, the room to front right with C18 moulded beams. There is a straight stair in the outshut to rear right. At the right end of the roof, there are two trusses visible; the principal rafters are roughly hewn, with cambered collars pegged to the sides of the principals. There are two rows of purlins resting on the backs of the principals. The other trusses are ceiled below the level of the collars, with the feet of the principal rafters visible.

Listing NGR: SX0124441578

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Legacy System:: LBS

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