Shire House and Attached Wall and Gate
SHIRE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE, QUAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327325
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shire House and Attached Wall and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- SHIRE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE, QUAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327325
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shire House and Attached Wall and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIRE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE, QUAY STREET
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:
- SHIRE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE, QUAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lostwithiel
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 10461 59676
Details
LOSTWITHIEL QUAY STREET, Lostwithiel SX 15 NW 10/124 Shire House and attached wall and - gate GV II
House. Early-mid C19, incorporating earlier structure formerly part of the Duchy Palace group; some late alterations. Slatestone rubble, rendered, rubble with Pentewan stone to rear. Asbestos slate roof with gable end to left and slightly bellcast hip to right end, stacks removed. Central entrance to 2-room plan, with central passage with stair to right; formerly heated by gable end stack to left and rear lateral stack to right. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows, ground floor has central panelled and glazed door with semi-circular hood on brackets, 20-pane sash with segmental head to right, early. C19 half-glazed door to left with pilasters and cornice, Gothic glazing, sidelights and overlight. First floor has two 20-pane sashes and central 16-pane sash, 2 flat- roofed dormers, each with 12-pane sash. Right side has a wooden oriel at first floor with 4-pane sash to front and sides. Rear has 2 C20 windows at ground floor. The rear wall has the springing for 2 stone arches at the front and rear entrance of the lane to the rear of the house; the front arch is pointed, with chamfered Pentewan stone dressings, rear arch in slatestone rubble with Pentewan stone springings. To the right side of the rear of the house, Pentewan stone quoins at ground floor level. Attached to front right, a slatestone rubble embattled wall, about 2 metres high and about 10 metres long, fronting Quay Street. C20 wrought iron gate to left. Interior The 2-room plan has been partitioned in late C20, 2 segmental arches remain in rear wall to right, of uncertain origin or function, the rear wall is of a thickness comparable to other buildings within the Duchy Palace group, with splayed reveal to the window at ground floor to left. Early C19 winder stair, with circular stick balusters and ramped, moulded wreathed handrail, with barley sugar twist slender newel. At first floor, 6 panelled doors and marble chimneypiece to rear of first floor room to right. The house is said to have been the prison governor's house for the Stannary Prison, in the C18 or early C19.
Listing NGR: SX1046159676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70876
- 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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