Luckett Hill Cottage

The following building shall be added to the list:-

STOKE CLIMSLAND LUCKETT SX 37 SE 8/10001 Luckett Hill Cottage

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Two miners'cottages, presently vacant (June 1992). Early C19. Coursed slatestone rubble; rag slate and corrugated iron roofs; stone left end stacks to each cottage. PLAN: cottage to right of 2-storey one-room plan with remains of service building to rear; cottage to left of one-storey 2-room plan with central entry and lean-to on left. EXTERIOR: front facing road has flat stone arches over C19 six-panelled door and flanking horned 8/8- pane sashes to cottage on left; plank door to lean-to. Cottage on right has similar arches over C19 plank door and boarded window; timber lintel over first-floor 6/6 pane sash. INTERIOR: early C19 fireplace with cast-iron range on left; C19 panelled doors; open fireplace to right. A significant surviving example of this building type, associated with the mines at Luckett, which closed in 1879 and were concerned with the extraction of arsenic, copper, tin and gold. (A K Hamilton-Jenkin, Mines and Miners of Cornwall, Vol XV, (1976), p.34).

Listing NGR: SX3879173420