The Cellar Bar

THE CELLAR BAR, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379446
Date first listed:
08-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:
The Cellar Bar
Statutory Address:
THE CELLAR BAR, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379446
Date first listed:
08-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:
The Cellar Bar
Statutory Address 1:
THE CELLAR BAR, CHURCH 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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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:
THE CELLAR BAR, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Mevagissey
National Grid Reference:
SX 01452 44882

Details

SX 04 NW MEVAGISSEY CHURCH STREET, Mevagissey
(West side)
868-0/3/10088
The Cellar Bar

GV II


Former pilchard-pressing fish cellars with lofts above, now used as a restaurant. Early C19. Rubble to ground floor, slate hanging on stud work to upper floors; grouted scantle slate roofs; brick axial stack towards rear of roof on left. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; inner front of right-hand wing is a 3-window range with original 12-pane hornless sashes to 2nd floor, otherwise C20 casements with glazing bars. Inner left-hand return has a shallow partly weatherboarded 2-storey lean-to. Outer elevation of left-hand wing is a 4-window range with windows to upper floors only, all original 12-pane hornless sashes. INTERIOR retains the original beam sockets for a pilchard-pressing floor. Included as a substantially complete example of an early C19 house with a slate-hung front, and as a rare surviving example of a structure of this type associated with the formerly prosperous pilchard fishing industry.


Listing NGR: SX0144944882

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478832
Legacy System:
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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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