Hale Mills Cottage

HALE MILLS COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312738
Date first listed:
03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Hale Mills Cottage
Statutory Address:
HALE MILLS COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312738
Date first listed:
03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Hale Mills Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HALE MILLS 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HALE MILLS COTTAGE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Gwennap
National Grid Reference:
SW 75155 42467

Details

GWENNAP HALE MILLS SW 74 SE SE 5/139 Hale Mills Cottage - GV II Small house circa late C18 and cottage to west circa early-mid C19. Killas rubble and possibly cob, partly rendered slate, sills. Original part has steep corrugated iron roof, formerly thatched, and C19 part has original grouted scantle slate roof at lower pitch. Brick chimneys over gable ends and party wall. Rounded external breast to gable. Original house is 2-room plan with central entrance and possible stair projection to rear at east end. Cottage is 1-room plan. 2 storeys with first floor rooms of house partly in roof space. South front with 1-window cottage, left with higher eaves and low 2-window house to right. Cottage adjoining left has shallow brick arches over openings, horned 4-pane sashes and doorway to right with top-glazed 4-panel door. House has slightly irregular front with doorway towards right-hand window. Wooden lintels. Early C20 top-glazed door and 4-pane 2-light casements to ground floor. Original 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes to first floor. Blocked stair window to rear. Interior of cottage is little altered. House was refloored in the C19, but possibly retains original roof structure (not inspected). Recess to rear of east room may have been original stair or fuel store. Fireplaces partly blocked. One of the few unmodernised houses in this former mining area.

Listing NGR: SW7515542467

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
63238
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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