Description

SW 72 SW MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE MAWGAN CROSS, MAWGAN

4/167 Nos 3 and 4 The Thatched Cottage

28.9.78
GV II

Two adjoining houses. Possibly C17, remodelled and extended in the C18. Painted
rubble with some cob, slate sills, timber or granite lintels. Wheat-reed thatched
roof with brick chimneys over gable ends and party wall; the left hand gable adjoins
a C19 cottage and the right hand gable end has large external rubble breast with
single storey scantle slate roofed and gable ended building adjoining.
Plan: Possibly the left hand house was originally a 3-room and through or cross
passage plan with inner room left, hall, passage and lower end room, right, but
converted to 2 small houses circa late C18 and possibly heightened (there is a 2 feet
approx. course of cob under the eaves), now again 1 house but with the right hand,
probably original doorway blocked. The right hand house, probably C18, has parlour,
left, and kitchen, right with passage between. A small outhouse, now probably
communicating with house adjoins at the right hand side.
Two storeys. Overall 5 window range. The original house, left, has irregular 3
window front with smaller middle window probably inserted when the eaves were
heightened circa late C18. This window, and the larger one below have circa late C18
2-light casements with horizontal wooden glazing bars and some original leaded panes
between. The original doorway to the right of this is partly blocked, circa early
C20, and has 4-pane 2-light casement. The present doorway with circa early C20
gabled wooden porch is between ground floor left hand windows and middle window. The
far right hand window opening is wider with circa early C20 2-light casement. The
ground floor left and 1st floor left and right hand windows are circa early C19 16-
pane hornless sashes. The C18 house right, has nearly symmetrical 2 window front
with central doorway and 1st floor windows closer spaced. C20 door within C20 glazed
porch. A possibly original 12-pane horizontal sliding sash survives to ground floor
left, otherwise windows are later casements.
Interiors not inspected but any surviving old internal features may help to resolve
the chronology of the building.
This is an unspoilt picturesque group overlooking the village green with cross. The
leaded windows are a feature found in a few other houses in the Lizard area.

Listing NGR: SW7073824881

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613932

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