Description

LOOE

SX2453 FORE STREET, West Looe
857-1/4/79 (South side)
19/03/51 Ye Old Cottage and Smugglers Cottage

GV II

2 houses (probably originally one house), at end of row plus
former boathouse at rear of Ye Old Cottage. C17.
MATERIALS: painted rubble walls many original oak lintels;
steep asbestos slate roof; external front rubble lateral stack
heightened with brick; external rubble stack on right and
another stack to rear.
PLAN: 3-room and through-passage plan with later outshut at
rear right and boathouse/net loft extension at right angles to
rear left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. Original 2-light
internally chamfered oak mullioned windows to 2nd floor with
mid C18 casements with thick glazing bars; otherwise later
casements except for rare early/mid C18 16-pane hornless sash
with thick glazing bars left of doorway and to hall bay right
of integral stack right of doorway. Further doorway right of
this; both doorways with slate hoods on original carved oak
brackets; C20 doors.
Right-hand return has small C17 2-light oak mullioned window
with diagonally-set stanchions, also an C18 20-pane 2-light
casement with thick glazing bars, the top cut down to form
margin panes. Rear has mid C18 stair sash with thick glazing
bars.
INTERIOR: original oak floor joists, most roughly chamfered
but those of central 1st-floor chamber square-edged and
originally for a plaster ceiling, presumably the best chamber;
original fireplaces with chamfered oak lintels except hall
fireplace with ovolo-moulded lintel; original rear of former
passage door with moulded and studded planks with C20 glazing
to top; original stair projection at rear of hall with
chamfered oak doorway, blocked to higher end (Smugglers
Cottage); C18 stairs with panelled dado with ramps; 2nd
staircase to upper floors of Smugglers Cottage is a C18 winder
stair with borrowed light; C18 panelling to left-hand
1st-floor chamber and many C18 2-panel doors with HL hinges.
Roof structure is late C18 or early C19 with pegged trusses.

Listing NGR: SX2524253177

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500536

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