Description

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SW 72 NE
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CONSTANTINE
PORTH NAVAS
QUAY ROAD
Creek Cottage including front garden wall and gate-piers

(Formerly listed as Cottage occupied by Mrs Westlake at SW 7530 2775 including front garden wall and gate-piers, PORTH NAVAS)

GV
II
Cottage. Circa mid C19. Local shale rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. Small red brick shafts to gable end stacks.

Plan: the original plan was probably two principal front rooms with an entrance lobby and straight staircase between and shallow service rooms at the back.

Exterior: two storeys. Symmetrical two window front. Original twelve-pane sashes with granite lintels and slate cills. Central doorway also with granite lintel and a small rectangular overlight and a C19 six-panel door the top panels with round heads. A very small C19 six-pane sash on the left-hand side at the rear. Small C20 single storey outshut at the back. Including a low stone rubble front garden area wall and gate-piers. The gate-piers are small granite monoliths, square-on-plan, with rounded tops; the wrought iron gate is C20.

Interior was not inspected.

The cottage is situated facing the head of the creek at Porth Navas and makes an important contribution to this attractive village.

Listing NGR: SW7529627761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613747

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)