Description

HELSTON

SW6225 FORE STREET, Porthleven
631-1/6/256 (South East side)
22/05/90 Chapel-keeper's house immediately
west of Methodist Church

GV II

Chapel-keeper's house. 1883. Slatestone rubble with granite
dressings including plinth and mullioned windows, buttresses
end corbels and dormer copings; grouted slate roof with
projecting verges with pierced barge boards and chamfered
collars; crested clay ridge tiles. Small rectangular plan.
Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in
roof space; symmetrical front with central gabled dormer over
porch flanked by 2 ground-floor windows. End buttresses and
buttressed porch with shouldered doorway with 4-pane overlight
and framed door with V-jointed boards; 2-light windows
including central windows to each gable end. INTERIOR not
inspected. The Methodist Church (qv) and its keeper's house,
including the site, were built at a cost of »3,500.
(Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1902-1902: P.
273).

Listing NGR: SW6294725918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490849

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper