Custom House
CUSTOM HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327606
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327606
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55763 37702
Details
HAYLE CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, Hayle SW 5437-5537 10/80 Custom House 2.6.1986 GV II Custom house. Dated 1862. Stone rubble, painted at sides and back, and pebbledash at front with granite ashlar plinth. Hipped asbestos slate roof with projecting eaves. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Slurried scantle slate roofs over side lean-tos. Plan: Rectangular plan 2-storey central block with single storey lean-to at either end. Probably 2 principal rooms flanking a central hall with stair hall at rear. Lean-tos may be later additions. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window south-west front with central doorway. Plinth, corner rusticated quoin strips with alternate vermiculated quoins and similar detail around doorway. Date 1862 carved in lintel over doorway. Threshold stone of doorway has incised compass points. Right-hand opening enlarged to form doorways other windows openings have plain rendered architraves. The lean-tos at either end have granite ashlar plinths like the main part. Each lean-to has a large doorway at the front with double boarded doors. The right-hand lean-to has level parapet front. Rear has central stair window and loading doorway to the left. All openings are boarded over. Interior: not inspected. In 1862 Hayle was given a custom house with the right of bonding general merchandise. A warrant as part of a registry followed immediately, to be withdrawn seventeen years later. Information provided by Hayle Town Council.
Listing NGR: SW5576337702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70176
- 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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