Lantau

Lantau is a former merchant's house located on Higher Chapel Street in East Looe, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. The building features a timber-frame structure with render, jettied over the ground floor, and has steep asbestos slate roofs with gables facing the street. It includes original oak central pendants and a valley pendant, with a taller roof for the main range behind, which has rendered rubble walls. There are external lateral stacks, one on the left-hand return and one at the rear center, both truncated.

The exterior is three storeys high with a two-window range. It has original oriel windows supported by carved brackets on the first floor, topped with a pentice roof, and features original ovolo-moulded sills and mullions, along with later four-pane casements. The ground floor has an early 19th-century casement with glazing bars on the left, a central doorway, and the outer frame of an original granite mullioned window on the right. The rear of the building includes two gabled dormers and an original wide doorway on the left with a six-panel moulded door in an ovolo-moulded frame.

Inside, there is an original splayed fireplace without a lintel at the rear center, along with chamfered and stopped oak cross beams. The mast newel stair has replaced treads, and there are moulded muntin and plank partitions in part of the first floor and attic. The left-hand side of the first-floor rear left chamber features small panelling. The oak roof structure includes threaded purlins and lapped dovetail collar joints in the front wings, with truss feet only visible in the main roof. There is a corbelled fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel in the main attic, and a bolection-moulded chimneypiece from around 1700, which has an early 19th-century hob grate.