Laburnum Cottage

LABURNUM COTTAGE, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328915
Date first listed:
25-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Laburnum Cottage
Statutory Address:
LABURNUM COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328915
Date first listed:
25-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Laburnum Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LABURNUM COTTAGE, THE SQUARE

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:
LABURNUM COTTAGE, THE SQUARE

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Gerrans
National Grid Reference:
SW8768735275

Details

SW 83 NE GERRANS THE SQUARE, Portscatho

3/47 Laburnum Cottage
-

GV II

House, rear formerly used as bakery and shop. C18, re-roofed 1913. Cement washed
slatestone rubble and cob walls, scantle slate hipped roof with brick chimney over
side walls. 2 room, double depth, central stair plan. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3
window south front. Central doorway and ground floor left window now within C20
glazed porch. 6-pane sash right. Wooden lintels. 4-paned horned sashes to first
floor. Irregular rear but street entrance front has original doorway right of centre
within brick porch, 18-pane former shop window to right of this and original doorway
to baker's shop extension under lower roof line to right. Doorway to left with C20
glazed door and slated hood on brackets is probably C20. 12-pane horizontal sliding
sash stair window is midway at mid-floor level. Similar window to first floor right
and 16-pane sash to first floor of extension. Street corner wall is splayed for
carriage access and has tall step, possibly mounting block. Wide ground floor window
with pair of 8-pane sashes to right of east vail and 16-pane sash over. Timber
lintels to original openings.
Interior is little altered with surviving bread ovens, original dog-leg stair, some
C18 2-panel doors and C18 niches with shaped shelves in right front room.


Listing NGR: SW8768735275

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
63011
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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