Ye Old Cottage Ye Olde Cottage

LOOE

SX2453 MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/41 (South West side) 19/03/51 Ye Olde Cottage (Formerly Listed as: MIDDLE MARKET STREET, East Looe Ye Old Cottage)

GV II*

Probable merchant's house. Probably mid C16. (1450 on sign). MATERIALS: painted rubble with 2 rendered timber-frame gables; jettied over ground floor to front; slurried probable rag slate roof; large external lateral rubble stack to right-hand (Buller Street) side. PLAN: shallow-depth double plot plan; gable end on to street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. Early C19 16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and to ground-floor right; central doorway with C18 bowtell-moulded frame and 4-panel door; rare C18 or early C19 shop windows with fairly thick glazing bars filling the space left of doorway. The deep jetty is carried on unmoulded oak joists to an unmoulded bressummer; some of the joists are old replacements. C20 casements central to gables. 8-pane 2-light casement to right-hand return. INTERIOR: original features include oak ceiling joists to ground floor; oak roof structure with threaded purlins (much repaired); winder stair to attic and unusual oak fireplace lintel with scalloped roll decoration to right-hand chamber.

Listing NGR: SX2553653248