Description

FLORE HIGH STREET
SP6460 (North side)
11/94 Nos.121 and 123 (The Old
House)
GV II
Shown on O.S, map as Nos.121-125.
House and attached cottage. House dated 1681 and 1697. Coursed squared
ironstone, thatch roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 2 storeys and attic;
6-window range. No.123 has 4-unit lobby entry and 4-panel part-glazed door to
right of centre in elaborate early C19 cast iron porch with ogee lead roof and
datestone above inscribed G/TM/1697; small rectangular first floor window above.
3-light casement windows to ground and first floors. All windows have timber
lintels. Between two windows left of door, another inserted C20 door. Stone
coped gable to right end with large buttress to gable end and datestone
inscribed 1681/G/TM. Masonry to right end bay of coursed rubble with bands of
squared stone. Left end bay is also an addition with finer squared stone to left
of straight joint. Canted projection to rear now used as store originally a
stair turret and has small square windows with stop-chamfered stone lintels.
No.121, probably also late C17, has 2-unit plan and resembles a cross wing with
gable end to street but almost certainly originally detached. Partially rendered
with brick gable, C20 windows and small roof dormer. Interior: No. 123. has
stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer.
No. 121 has ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with cambered
stop-chamfered bressumer.

Listing NGR: SP6490760219

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26290898

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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