Description

SX 0351 NE ST AUSTELL CHARLESTOWN ROAD, Charlestown
(West side)
868-0/4/10041
The Boatshed

GV II

Fish cellar building, later used as boat house. Early C19 (shown on 1843 tithe map). Killas and granite rubble with granite and brick dressings and timber lintels; painted brick outshut at the front and some brick to left-hand gable; small size rag slate roof with cement mortar grouting sweeping lower over front outshut and at lower pitch over rear extension; brick stack central to rear of outshut. Roughly square plan plus slightly later narrower outshut central to the front and lean-to/outshut at rear. EXTERIOR: single storey; front elevation has small-paned window on either side of the outshut. Lower down on this wall are the beam sockets of a former pilchard-pressing floor. The outshut has a window and a door to the front and a window to the right-hand return. Wide doorway to each return wall of the original building. The doorway of the left-hand return is blocked in 2 phases and there is a loading hatch above. INTERIOR has its original but much-repaired roof structure with nailed collars to the principals. Included as a rare and significant example of its type in Cornwall, part of an important and little altered group in this former fishing and china clay port.

Listing NGR: SX0361152057

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659710

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014