Description

LOOE

SX2453 FORE STREET, East Looe
857-1/4/13 (East side)
19/03/51 The Golden Guinea Restaurant

GV II*

Probable merchant's house. Early C17. Stucco on timber-frame;
steep asbestos slate parallel roofs; central axial rubble
stack and capped rendered stack on the left. Double-depth plan
with near central through passage plus C20 extensions at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. 1st floor has
2 rare wide original canted 6-light-plus-sidelight oriel
windows, carried on moulded and carved brackets; moulded
sills, transoms and ovolo-moulded mullions; central king
mullions; horizontal glazing bars possibly in position of
former saddle bars. Ground floor has 2 early C19 16-pane
hornless sashes under left-hand oriel and bowed C20 window
under right-hand oriel. Original moulded doorway left of
centre with C20 panelled door.
INTERIOR: C17 moulded plank and muntin screen to left of
passage; right-hand room has C17 moulded plaster ceiling
cornice with trailing vine; hood of former fireplace (now
doorway) carried on consoles; lower room space behind the
moulded and carved cornice; left-hand front room with C18
moulded ceiling cornice; some C18 doors with fielded panels.
1st-floor chamber has C17 plaster panel, a crude relief with
figures and angel, plants and beast with inscription "To obey
is better than sacrifice EEE". Another plaster relief panel in
same room dated 1652. Another panel, (not seen), said to have
1632 date and initials EW.

Listing NGR: SX2553253336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534023

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)