Lantau

LOOE

SX2453 HIGHER CHAPEL STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/20 (South side) 19/03/51 Lantau

GV II*

Formerly known as: House occupied by Mrs. Andrews HIGHER CHAPEL STREET. Probable merchant's house. Late C16/early C17. MATERIALS: render on timber-frame jettied over ground floor; steep pair of asbestos slate roofs with gables end on to street and with original oak central pendants and valley pendant; taller roof of main range behind with rear wall and side walls of rendered rubble; external lateral stacks; one to left-hand return and one to rear centre, all truncated. PLAN: double-depth plan including rear range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Original oriel windows on carved brackets to 1st floor with pentice roof over; original ovolo-moulded sills and mullions; later 4-pane casements; 2 small C20 windows to gables. Ground floor has early C19 casement with glazing bars on the left; central doorway and outer frame (rendered) of original granite mullioned window on the right. Rear has 2 gabled dormers; Original wide doorway to left with original 6-panel moulded door in original ovolo-moulded frame. INTERIOR: original splayed fireplace without lintel to rear centre; chamfered and stopped oak cross beams; mast newel stair (with replaced treads) moulded muntin and plank partitions to part of 1st floor and attic; small panelling to left-hand side of 1st-floor rear left chamber; oak roof structure with threaded purlins and lapped dovetail collar joints to front wings; truss feet only visible to main roof; corbelled fireplace with chamfered oak lintel to left of main attic, and c1700 bolection-moulded chimneypiece with early C19 hob grate.

Listing NGR: SX2557853189