Post Box Cottage
POST BOX COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328410
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Post Box Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POST BOX COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328410
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Post Box Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST BOX 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.
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:
- POST BOX COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mawnan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 77264 27309
Details
SW 72 NE MAWNAN DURGAN
9/205 Post Box Cottage -
GV II
Small house with adjoining cottage, now 1 house. Circa late C18 or early C19, extended circa mid C19. Slurried rubble with cob to the upper floor of the original house (left). Dry Delabole slate roof with brick chimneys over gable end, left, and over hipped end on the right. House was probably originally thatched. Plan: 2-room plan original house on the left and later 1-room-plan cottage on the right. The house has central lobby entrance and the cottage has lobby entrance on its left. Possibly remodelled plan in the C20. Exterior: 2-storey. Overall 4 window south-east front with symmetrical 3 window front with central doorway of original house on the left and regular 1 window front of cottage on the right. C20 doors in original openings. C20 12-pane casement windows, probably copies of former windows. Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW7726427309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66188
- 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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