Description

ST BURYAN PENBERTH COVE
SW 42 SW
8/113 Jeffery's Cottage and The Flat
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GV II
House and adjoining former fishermen's cellars and stores. C18 or possibly older
heightened circa early C19. Walls incorporate some reused C17 masonry. Granite
rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with dressed granite
chimney over left-hand gable end; brick chimneys over the other gable end and over
the party wall.
Plan: Long rectangular plan. Original 2-room-plan house on the left, later wider
fish cellars and net-basking cellars with loft, on the right. Eaves of both parts
were heightened probably circa early C19.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 6-window south-west front. Original 2-window front
house on the left with approximately central doorway. Circa late-C19 or C20 ledged
door and 4-pane sashes in C18 openings. Later building, on the right, has original
doorways at left and right (now fitted with window) central ground floor window with
reused C17 2-light head of mullioned window and large buttress on its left. Old
ledged door to left-hand doorway, otherwise C20 door and windows. Old photograph of
the house (copy in possession of occupier) shows the house lime-washed on the front
wall around the door and ground floor windows forming a rectangular panel. This was
once a traditional treatment particularly in fishing villages.
Interior: House has unspoiled interior with C19 carpentry and joinery details.
Left-hand fish cellar has cobbled floor with runnels leading to underground wooden
vat for collecting oil pressed from pilchards. There are holes for beam ends at
about 1 metre from the floor in the rear wall.

Listing NGR: SW4025222753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430804

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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