Former Reading Room And Wash House

SW 72 NE CONSTANTINE PORTH NAVAS

9/108 Former reading room and wash house

GV II

Reading room and adjoining wash house, now used as stores. Circa mid to late C19. Local shale rubble with granite dressings and red brick rear wall. Slate roof with gable ends, deep eaves and red clay ridge tiles. Central red brick axial stack. Plan: Long single depth rectangular single storey building of 2 rooms with a central axial stack with back to back fireplaces heating the wash house to the left and the reading room to the right. Both rooms have doorways at the front. Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical front with 2 C19 6-pane horizontally pivotted windows at the centre with slate cills ; and to the left and right of the front C19 doorways each with a plank door. At either gable end a C19 wooden chamfered and transom window. There are no windows in the rear wall which backs onto a small stream flowing into the creek at Porth Navas. Interior: The reading room has a small fireplace with a moulded granite shelf and a decorated cast iron grate. The former wash-house to the left is said to have had a copper boiler.

Listing NGR: SW7523127756