Description

ST AGNES TOWN HILL, SW 75 SW 4/215 Nos 1-9 (consecutive) Stippy-Stappy - including front garden walls GV II

Terrace of cottages including front garden walls. Circa early-mid C19. Killas rubble with granite and brick dressings. Grouted scantle slate roofs with gable ends, except roof third from left (No.3) which is replaced with dry Delabole slate. Brick chimneys over the right-hand mostly gable ends. No 1 has hipped roof. Plan: Row of 9 originally identical cottages except that Nos 1 and 4 are wider. No 1 (far left) has former corner shop on its left with blocked shops doorway in the splay of the corner. No. 4 has former passageway to the rear, on its left. Each cottage has 1 room at the front with entrance lobby on its left. There are various C19 outshuts, lean-tos or separately roofed integral or service room additions at the rear. The houses step down a steep slope to the right. Shallow gardens in front with stone rubble walls and slate copings. Exterior: 2 storeys. Virtually unaltered row of similar 2-window fronts. Each front has doorway under its left hand window except No. 1 which has an extra bay for former shop left of its cottage doorway. The openings are spanned by shallow brick arches with projecting granite keystones. Most have C19 panelled doors and their original small-paned hornless sashes. No 7 has later 4-pane horned sashes; Nos 3 and 6 have C20 doors; No 8 has large C20 conservatory. Shallow gardens in front with granite coped rubble walls. Interiors not inspected. This unusual and complete terrace of houses is conspicuously situated stepped down the side of an unspoilt valley.

Listing NGR: SW7213250770

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