Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Oak

WRENN ID
low-spandrel-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1984
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This is a house, likely dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations, and 20th-century roof and floor level changes. The exterior is colourwashed cob set on a stone plinth, with a colourwashed stone stack on the lateral front and a brick chimney to the lower left gable end. The left gable end was rebuilt in brick and slate in the 20th century. The roof is covered in asbestos slate, formerly thatched, with a corrugated iron roof to a rear outshut.

The house originally had a two-room cross-passage plan, with an off-centre entrance that now serves as a stair hall. A hall, formerly a public bar, is located to the right of the passage, and a kitchen, formerly a so-called cellar, is on the ground floor to the left of the passage. There may have been an inner room to the right that is no longer present. A rear outshut contained a former public house snug, with a truncated stack to the snug fireplace on the right gable end wall.

The front of the house is two storeys high, with a two-window facade. The front right section projects slightly, possibly aligned with the original plane of a projecting lateral stack. A two-light casement with glazing bars is on the ground floor to the left; a three-light casement with glazing bars is to the right of the stack. The first-floor window to the left is a two-light casement with glazing bars, while the first-floor window to the left of the stack is a three-light casement with glazing bars, originally a two-light.

Inside, a massive fireplace in the former bar retains one granite jamb, and the fireplace beam has been replaced by a metal girder. There are stout, roughly-hewn ceiling beams, some with run-out stops and some with straight-cut stops. Oak benches are fixed to two walls with brackets. A three-plank oak door with strap hinges and a gudgeon-hook leads to the house, and a similar door opens into a ground-floor room that retains an unhewn axial ceiling beam reset in the 20th century.

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