Goldings Flats

GOLDINGS FLATS, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329418
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Goldings Flats
Statutory Address:
GOLDINGS FLATS, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1329418
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Goldings Flats
Statutory Address 1:
GOLDINGS FLATS, FORE STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
GOLDINGS FLATS, FORE STREET

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Callington
National Grid Reference:
SX 35911 69551

Details

SX 36 NE CALLINGTON FORE STREET (south side),

8/25 Goldings Flats

GV II

Staging Inn, later hotel and public house. Half demolished in mid C20 for new road. Converted into flats with shops on ground floor. Circa mid C18. Stucooed rubblestone with slate roof, gable end on right and hipped end on left. Plan much altered. 2 storeys and attic. Regular 3 window front. Ground floor with partly glazed 8-panel door to left. 12-pane sash with horns in centre and original entrance to right, now glazed with C20 shop window without glazing bars. Original porch on 2 round columns on square bases with round caps. Plain entablature with moulded cornice. First floor with three 16-pane sashes with horns. Moulded cills. Modillion eaves cornice. 3 full dormer windows above with C20 fenestration and hipped slate roofs sprocketted at eaves. Right-hand wall rebuilt when range to right demolished. C20 fenestration with shops to ground floor. Coaches from Plymouth to Launceston changed horses at the New Inn during the early C19. Later became known as Goldings Hotel and then as The Blue Cap. it was kept by Jacob Geach until 1764 and in 1786 was described as having 11 lodging rooms. The fine C18 stabling to the rear could accomodate up to 50 beasts. In 1880 an embattled Gothic arch of evergreens stood outside. Interior not inspected. H L Douch Old Cornish Inns 1966 Shelia Lightbody The Book of Callington 1982

Listing NGR: SX3591169551

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Legacy System number:
61226
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Douch, H L, Old Cornish Inns, (1966)
Lightbody, S, The Book of Callington, (1982)

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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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