Maids House

SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK QUETHIOCK

12/137 Maids House

GV II

Four 1-roomed almshouses, then 2 cottages, now 1 cottage. Circa 1633-1640. Restored in 1970s-1980s. Built for poor spinsters of the parish by William Coryton. Painted stone rubble with painted rendered concrete block repairs. Rag slate roof with hipped end on left and gable end on right. Brick stack on ridge near centre replacing stone rubble stack. 2 room plan with axial stacks between, with back-to-back fireplaces. 1½ storeys, originally symmetrical, 2 window front. 2 entrance doors near centre with chamfered granite lintels and jambs with pyramid stops. C20, part glazed, plank doors. Flanking entrances, two 3-light granite mullioned windows with hollow chamfered mullions. Left-hand window renewed. Above 2 half-dormer windows with slate raking roofs, inserted in 1970s. Reused 1-light and 3-light casements with glazing. Dormers with casements to rear. Interior; 2 granite fireplaces, back-to-back, chamfered granite lintels and jambs with pyramid stops. Granite hearth to right-hand fireplace. Ceiling beams replaced. Roof of 6 bays with heavy principals chamfered below collars with straight cranked feet dying into wall. Wall plate possibly raised. Collars chamfered, dovetailed into principals. V. M and F. J Chesher. The Cornishman's House, 1968 Mary French A Victorian Village. A record of the Parish of Quethiock in Cornwall 1977

Listing NGR: SX3123264726