26, Church Street

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 CHURCH STREET 660-1/4/46 (West side) 27/02/50 No.26

GV II*

Inn, later shop with accommodation. C17, remodelled C18 and C19. Render on timber-frame to jettied front; corbelled end of masonry wall on left, steep rag slate roof with asbestos slatehanging to front gables, and to much of rear. Single-depth plan gable ends on to the streetplus wing at angle to rear right. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 copies of mid C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars; paired sashes to 1st floor. Ground floor has C20 double shop front with splayed central doorway; house doorway on the left with C20 door with integral 6-pane overlight. Slatehung rear has large rubble lateral stack. INTERIOR retains most of its C17 structure and features including: oak studwork partitions, roof structures; ovolo-moulded doorframes and scratch-moulded doors with some old red and brown paint; ovolo-moulded outer frames of former mullioned windows, some with headrail only; chamfered granite fireplaces with splayed backs; octagonal stone pier between ground floor areas and complex-moulded oak doorframe into rear wing with large hidden fireplace and, of particular interest, a semi-circular stair turret with winders and a domed ceiling structure. A remarkably complete C17 interior.

Listing NGR: SX3319584601