Old Clink and Forecourt Wall and Arch to South is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. A 19th century Vestry room, lock-up cells, store.
Old Clink and Forecourt Wall and Arch to South
- WRENN ID
- winding-oriel-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- Vestry room, lock-up cells, store
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Old Clink and Forecourt Wall and Arch to South, Fore Street, Callington
- OS grid reference
- SX 358 696
- Coordinates
- 50.50341, -4.31619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Clink, along with its forecourt wall and arch to the south, is a building dating from 1851, constructed at a cost of £60 paid by John Couch Johns. It features rubblestone walls with large granite quoins and has a string course between the ground and first floors. The building has a slate roof with gabled ends on the north, south, and east sides, and a projecting stone stack on the west, although the shaft has been removed.
The structure is square in plan, consisting of two rectangular lock-up cells on the ground floor and a single vestry room on the first floor. The south front is asymmetrical and has entrances to the cells beneath four-centred cut stone arches, each with original heavy planked doors and fanlights above, although the bars to the fanlight on the right have been removed. On the first floor, there is a two-light casement window featuring pointed Gothic glazing bars and a granite lintel. To the right, there is a four-centred granite arch doorway with a plank door, accessed by external stone rubble steps.
On the east side, there is a three-light casement with pointed Gothic glazing bars and a datestone above in the gable end. The north side has a similar casement. The ground rises to the north, enclosing the ground floor. The rubblestone walls extend to the south to enclose the area in front of the clink. In the center of the south side, there is a large four-centred cut granite arch with incised spandrels forming the entrance.
Historically, in 1851, Henry Bullen was appointed Parish Constable and used the two lock-up cells for detaining drunks and vagrants. The vestry room was utilized by the relieving officers, with the overseer present, when distributing weekly assistance to the 'Out Poor'.
Local climate
Old Clink and Forecourt Wall and Arch to South sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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