The Golden Guinea Restaurant

LOOE

SX2453 FORE STREET, East Looe 857-1/4/13 (East side) 19/03/51 The Golden Guinea Restaurant

GV II*

Probable merchant's house. Early C17. Stucco on timber-frame; steep asbestos slate parallel roofs; central axial rubble stack and capped rendered stack on the left. Double-depth plan with near central through passage plus C20 extensions at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window range. 1st floor has 2 rare wide original canted 6-light-plus-sidelight oriel windows, carried on moulded and carved brackets; moulded sills, transoms and ovolo-moulded mullions; central king mullions; horizontal glazing bars possibly in position of former saddle bars. Ground floor has 2 early C19 16-pane hornless sashes under left-hand oriel and bowed C20 window under right-hand oriel. Original moulded doorway left of centre with C20 panelled door. INTERIOR: C17 moulded plank and muntin screen to left of passage; right-hand room has C17 moulded plaster ceiling cornice with trailing vine; hood of former fireplace (now doorway) carried on consoles; lower room space behind the moulded and carved cornice; left-hand front room with C18 moulded ceiling cornice; some C18 doors with fielded panels. 1st-floor chamber has C17 plaster panel, a crude relief with figures and angel, plants and beast with inscription "To obey is better than sacrifice EEE". Another plaster relief panel in same room dated 1652. Another panel, (not seen), said to have 1632 date and initials EW.

Listing NGR: SX2553253336