Description

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533966

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)