Description

MARAZION FORE STREET, Marazion SW 5230-5330

5/12 York Cottage, Honeysuckle Cottage, York House and Chapel Cottage

GV II

House, now 4 houses. Circa late C15 or C16, extended probably in the C17 and remodelled circa early C19 and circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings mostly stucco on the street (north) side. Scantle slate roofs with projecting eaves at the front. Brick chimneys over gable end right and over cross wall towards left. Plan: now a long L-shaped range taller left and middle; comprising a central 2 room house (now divided) and with a similar 1 room plan house at either end. The left hand house 2 rooms deep and the middle house with a C17 wing at right angles behind the left-hand room. The house on the right is lower and is a 2 room plan, the left hand room formerly the hall of the original house and the right hand room has been a shop. Originally this group was probably 1 house with a 3 room and through passage plan which was extended with a parlour or service wing in the C17. The present front was to conceal evidence of alterations and provide a street front. At the rear of the right hand part of the former 2-room house (York House) is a circa late C15 or C16 4-light probably hall window. There were other mullioned windows in the C17 wing until recently (July 1986), now removed and buried in the back yard. 2 storeys. Overall 7 window range of 1:3:1:2 bays, the first 5 bays taller with a 3 window house in the middle and similar 1 window front on either side. The 3 window house has pilasters adjoining the other houses, stucco window surrounds and stucco modillioned eaves cornice. The 3 ground floor windows have keystones and the 3 first floor windows have bracket-shaped headed lintels. The ground floor right hand window is slightly left of alignment with the first floor window to provide space for a doorway far right. The ground floor windows are slightly wider. The doorway far left is presumably a C20 insertion cutting away part of the pilaster. On either side the fronts were probably formerly similarly detailed but now painted rubble, left, and plain render, right. A 12-pane hornless sash to the first floor far left is presumably contemporary with the remodelling of the whole group; the other windows are later 4-paned horned sashes. At the far right the house is lower and has a former shop front with a tripartite sash to the right. The rear has some original circa late medieval and C17 walling but much remodelled. The most interesting feature is a late medieval 4 light granite mullioned window with king mullion (see plan description). Interior : In the C17 wing are some original chamfered oak ceiling beams, otherwise interior not inspected. At the roadside is a shallow walk and a chamfered granite round coped retaining wall surmounted by iron railings. The stanchions have square cushion bases and ball finials and the 2 round section rails are socketted into square collars. Older C19 railings at left hand return. The front of this group displays little evidence of the building's great age and former importance and it clearly demonstrates how, as with many other Cornish buildings, they have been remodelled.

Listing NGR: SW5208730633

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5