Description

LOOE

SX2453 HIGHER CHAPEL STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/20 (South side)
19/03/51 Lantau

GV II*

Formerly known as: House occupied by Mrs. Andrews HIGHER
CHAPEL STREET.
Probable merchant's house. Late C16/early C17.
MATERIALS: render on timber-frame jettied over ground floor;
steep pair of asbestos slate roofs with gables end on to
street and with original oak central pendants and valley
pendant; taller roof of main range behind with rear wall and
side walls of rendered rubble; external lateral stacks; one to
left-hand return and one to rear centre, all truncated.
PLAN: double-depth plan including rear range.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Original oriel windows on
carved brackets to 1st floor with pentice roof over; original
ovolo-moulded sills and mullions; later 4-pane casements; 2
small C20 windows to gables. Ground floor has early C19
casement with glazing bars on the left; central doorway and
outer frame (rendered) of original granite mullioned window on
the right.
Rear has 2 gabled dormers; Original wide doorway to left with
original 6-panel moulded door in original ovolo-moulded frame.
INTERIOR: original splayed fireplace without lintel to rear
centre; chamfered and stopped oak cross beams; mast newel
stair (with replaced treads) moulded muntin and plank
partitions to part of 1st floor and attic; small panelling to
left-hand side of 1st-floor rear left chamber; oak roof
structure with threaded purlins and lapped dovetail collar
joints to front wings; truss feet only visible to main roof;
corbelled fireplace with chamfered oak lintel to left of main
attic, and c1700 bolection-moulded chimneypiece with early C19
hob grate.

Listing NGR: SX2557853189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534011

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