Approximate Location Map
Large Map »
Latitude: 50.3532 / 50°21'11"N
Longitude: -4.4538 / 4°27'13"W
OS Eastings: 225536
OS Northings: 53248
OS Grid: SX255532
Mapcode National: GBR NG.W1SV
Mapcode Global: FRA 18K3.GP6
Plus Code: 9C2Q9G3W+7F
Entry Name: Ye Old Cottage Ye Olde Cottage
Listing Date: 19 March 1951
Last Amended: 8 November 1993
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280647
English Heritage Legacy ID: 376428
ID on this website: 101280647
Location: Looe, Cornwall, PL13
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Looe
Built-Up Area: Looe
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: St Martin with St Nicholas, Looe
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Cottage
LOOE
SX2453 MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/41 (South West side)
19/03/51 Ye Olde Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe
Ye Old Cottage)
GV II*
Probable merchant's house. Probably mid C16. (1450 on sign).
MATERIALS: painted rubble with 2 rendered timber-frame gables;
jettied over ground floor to front; slurried probable rag
slate roof; large external lateral rubble stack to right-hand
(Buller Street) side.
PLAN: shallow-depth double plot plan; gable end on to street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. Early C19
16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and to ground-floor
right; central doorway with C18 bowtell-moulded frame and
4-panel door; rare C18 or early C19 shop windows with fairly
thick glazing bars filling the space left of doorway. The deep
jetty is carried on unmoulded oak joists to an unmoulded
bressummer; some of the joists are old replacements. C20
casements central to gables. 8-pane 2-light casement to
right-hand return.
INTERIOR: original features include oak ceiling joists to
ground floor; oak roof structure with threaded purlins (much
repaired); winder stair to attic and unusual oak fireplace
lintel with scalloped roll decoration to right-hand chamber.
Listing NGR: SX2553653248
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
