Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Lifeboat house, watchtower. 4 related planning applications.
Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cornice-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lifeboat house, watchtower
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SX2453 857-1/4/5
LOOE East Looe CHURCH END Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)
(Formerly listed as Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed)
17/09/73
GV II
Former lifeboat house and watchtower, now in commercial use. c1860.
MATERIALS: Rubble with granite quoins and red-brick arches and flush strings; dry slate roofs with projecting eaves with exposed moulded rafter ends and purlins; crested red ridge-tiles.
PLAN: T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: Italianate style. Two-storey tower, single-storey lifeboat shed. Round-arched single-light windows except group of three lights to first-floor front of tower; large three-light transomed window under segmental arch to rear end of lifeboat house; front doorway under similar arch with original transomed fanlight over part-glazed doors; oculae to tower gables.
INTERIOR: Simple where inspected.
Listing NGR: SX2560453131
Detailed Attributes
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