Description

SX 04 NW MEVAGISSEY CHURCH STREET, Mevagissey
(West side)
868-0/3/10088
The Cellar Bar

GV II

Former pilchard-pressing fish cellars with lofts above, now used as a restaurant. Early C19. Rubble to ground floor, slate hanging on stud work to upper floors; grouted scantle slate roofs; brick axial stack towards rear of roof on left. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; inner front of right-hand wing is a 3-window range with original 12-pane hornless sashes to 2nd floor, otherwise C20 casements with glazing bars. Inner left-hand return has a shallow partly weatherboarded 2-storey lean-to. Outer elevation of left-hand wing is a 4-window range with windows to upper floors only, all original 12-pane hornless sashes. INTERIOR retains the original beam sockets for a pilchard-pressing floor. Included as a substantially complete example of an early C19 house with a slate-hung front, and as a rare surviving example of a structure of this type associated with the formerly prosperous pilchard fishing industry.

Listing NGR: SX0144944882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659696

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)