Description

TAVISTOCK HAMLETS DEVON GREAT CONSOLS
SX 47 SW
5/151 Wheal Anna Maria Houses
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GV
II
Row of 3 attached mine captain's houses, now 3 houses. Circa 1870, with later
alterations and additions. Rubble, slate-hung front, central house rendered to rear.
Slate roof with ridge and gable end stack to house to right, rebuilt in brick, other
stacks removed.
Row of 3 houses, larger to right, 2 small houses to left; double depth plan, original
internal plan of smaller houses uncertain after alterations; large house has porch
off-centre to right, rooms to right heated by gable end stack, rooms to left by ridge
stack.
House to right of 2 storeys and 4 windows, all 16-pane sashes at first floor, ground
floor has 16-pane sash and 12-pane sash to left, porch with half-glazed door,
sidelights with margin glazing, plain pilasters and frieze with rosettes and
triglyphs, guttae and cornice, 16-pane sash to right; right gable end slate-hung. 2
houses to left of 2 storeys with lower roof level. House to left has 2 windows, 16-
pane sashes to first floor, ground floor C20 plate glass window to left and 16-pane
sash to right, with central porch, which has 9-pane light to front and door to side,
plain frieze and cornice. Central house has porch removed, with C20 French window
and 4-panelled door with overlight, plate glass window at first floor. Left side has
2-span roof over 2 smaller houses, all slate-hung; rear range has 20-pane light at
first floor (to stair) and 6-pane light at ground floor left; single storey rear wing
has small gabled porch with 10-pane sidelight and inner door, wall of wing continued
to form small yard behind end house to right. Rear of large house to left has
outshut with 16-pane sash, two 6-pane lights and small porch to right with door. 2-
storey rear wing with hipped roof and stack to side, with 16-pane sash and C20 light
at ground floor, 12-pane sash at first floor, rendered; this formed extension to end
house. Central house has two 4-pane sash at first floor, single storey lean-to and
C20 window at ground floor. End house to right has two 16-pane sashes at first
floor.
Interior not inspected.
The porches are typical of mine captains' houses at Devon Great Consols Mine.

Listing NGR: SX4268873534

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