Lugger Hotel

SX 15 SW FOWEY FORE STREET, Fowey (North West side) 868-0/2/10060 Lugger Hotel

GV II

Public house. C17, remodelled and extended to right c1900. Pebbledash on timber frame; pair of gables end on to the street; painted rubble at rear; dry slate roof to right-hand roof, asbestos slate to other roof; shaped barge boards. Deep plan, at right with gable on to street, plus parallel narrower wing added on the right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, the left-hand part with 2nd floor (now 1st floor) partly in roof space and the wing is taller; 2-window range. Original front has 6-light oriel window on 3 brackets to 2nd floor and rare original 12-light oak ovolo-moulded mullioned window to full width of 1st floor. Wing has original c1900 transomed windows between moulded strings. Pentice slate roof above ground floor, the left-hand part of which was formerly jet tied. There is a full-width original c1900 shop front with leaded glazing to transomed overlight and to lower part of main lights; doorway towards left and on right; vermiculated rustication to stuccoed end pilasters. Rear is a 2-window range, the left-hand window with a C17 ovolo-moulded lintel and 6-pane light of an old casement window, the other window is a C20 12-pane 2-light casement under a C17 chamfered lintel. Ground floor has tall central doorway under a similar chamfered lintel. There are 2 small window openings under oak lintels right of doorway and a later or enlarged window opening left of doorway. INTERIOR of ground floor room has panelled and embossed ceiling with moulded cornice with anthemion enrichment; recess to wall on left. First floor said to have retained C17 features including plaster ceiling; plaster plaque of 1633 replaced by metal one. This is in origin one of a significant group of post-medieval town houses in Fowey, with the high quality remodelling of c1900 making an important contribution to the streetscape.

Listing NGR: SX1257251724