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TAVISTOCK HAMLETS MORWELLHAM
SX 46 NW
8/1
Quay Cottage and Assayer's
Laboratory
GV II
House with attached assayer's laboratory, storage sheds attached to right with cottage
to rear; interiors reconstructed for museum display. Mid C19 with C20 alterations.
Slatestone rubble with granite dressings, slate roofs with brick gable end stacks to
house and rear external rubble stack heating room to rear left. House of single depth
plan, with entry directly into room to left, with straight stair to rear of room; 2-room
plan.
2 storeys, first floor has three 2-light casements of 8 panes each; ground floor has
horizontal sliding sash with 4-pane toplights to right and left of gabled trellis porch
with half-glazed door with 4-pane light to left. Second door and similar sash to end
right to laboratory. Wall splayed back to right to storage shed of same roof height,
with 2 double and one single door, pitched roof in corrugated iron on wooden piers
over front area. Rear of shed is reconstructed as miners cottage at upper level, built
into the slope of the ground. Rear of house has door with cambered granite lintel,
single storey lean-to to left and wooden porch to right.
Interior Not inspected.
(Sources: Booker,F.: Morwellham. 1970)

Listing NGR: SX4453869608