QUAY ROAD

QUAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329087
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1964
List Entry Name:
QUAY ROAD
Statutory Address:
QUAY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329087
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1964
List Entry Name:
QUAY ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
QUAY ROAD

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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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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:
QUAY ROAD

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Polperro
National Grid Reference:
SX 20961 50934

Details

LANSALLOS QUAY ROAD, (north side), Polperro SX 2050-2150 6/86 21.8.64 GV II

Probably fish cellars, now house. Circa mid C18, partly rebuilt in early C19. Stone rubble with slate roof with gable ends. Stone rubble chimney stack on lower gable end. Built on the harbour walls, the 3-storey front rising from the harbour side. Built into rocks at higher right hand end where it adjoins the quay. Also 3 storeys at rear to Quay Road. Harbour elevation regular 2-window front with small ground floor C20 timber balcony projecting out beyond harbour walls. Part glazed C20 door to left and 3-light casement to right with glazing bars. First and second floor each with 12-pane sashes. Left-hand corner of higher end splayed. Entrance in higher gable end with projecting C20 timber porch and 2-light casement above. Indication of altered in openings with evidence of large openings probably for fish cellars. Quay Road elevation asymmetrical with casements on ground floor and C19 sashes above. Interior not inspected. In 1792 Jane Pearce leased the Old Pallace on the quay. Later it was rebuilt by Zephaniah Job as Pier Inn. Early Photograph circa 1860s by Lewis Harding. Lanyon, A The Rooks of Trelawne 1976.

Listing NGR: SX2096150934

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Legacy System number:
61552
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lanyon, A, The Rocks of Trelawne, (1976)

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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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