Description

SW 72 SW ST MARTIN ST. MARTIN
-IN-MENEAGE
4/237 Forge Cottage and house adjoining
- at north side and cartshed

GV II

Pair of adjoining houses and cartshed. Circa early C19. Painted stone rubble with
granite lintels to ground floor, cob with wooden lintels above. Grouted scantle
slate roof, hipped on the right, with brick chimneys over gable end, left, and
partly wall. Cast iron ogee gutters. Each house is a 2-room plan with central cross passage leading to stair. Small lean-to at rear of left hand house. Right hand house rear is party wall with house adjoining at right angles. Single storey rubble cart shed adjoining left hand gable end. Overall 4 windows west front. Each house has nearly symmetrical 2-window front with nearly central doorway. C20 doors. Original 16-pane hornless sashes except for old horned copy to ground floor left. An old 2-light casement with horizontal wooden glazing bars and some leaded panes survives at the rear.
Interiors not inspected.
Uncommon in Cornwall to find 2 adjoining houses both so unaltered.

Listing NGR: SW7358023951

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520337

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)