Hawker's Hut
HAWKER'S HUT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328568
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hawker's Hut
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKER'S HUT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328568
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hawker's Hut
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKER'S HUT
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:
- HAWKER'S HUT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morwenstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS1988415078
Details
SS 21 NW MORWENSTOW MORWENSTOW
1/111 Hawker's Hut
-
- II
Hut. 1840s, some C20 repair. Designed by the Reverend R S Hawker for himself.
Small rectangular hut with stable door built against the cliff and immediately
overlooking the sea. Interior has slate floor and fixed timber seats. Roof of hut
covered in turf with two wood boards across eaves above stable door of five planks,
wood latches and iron strap hinges. Vertical plank each side of exposed stiles.
Hut built from timbers from the wreck of the 'Alonzo'. Hawker used the hut for
composing verse and reflection. R S Hawker, poet and antiquary, was vicar of
Morwenstow from 1835-1874. C E Byles. The Life and Letters of R S Hawker (1905),
pp. 163-167.
Listing NGR: SS1988415078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64919
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Byles, C E, The Life and Letters of RS Hawker, (1905), 163-167
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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