Fort Cottage

ST GORAN GORRAN HAVEN SX 0041 0141 5/121 Fort Cottage - GV II

House. Circa mid C17, with alterations of C19 and C20. Slatestone rubble, painted. Asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles; gable end to left and hipped to right. Gable end stack with rubble shaft and shaped top to left. Stack removed to right. Plan: 2-room plan, with nearly central entrance and room to right and left, each room originally heated from an end stack. The house is built into the rear. The entrance passage is unusually wide, with a straight stair inserted in circa C19. Exterior: 2 storeys, nearly symmetrical 2-window front. At ground and first floor to left and right a late C19 4-pane sash. Off centre to right is a C20 half-glazed door with overlight, set in a C20 porch which is in course of construction at time of survey (December 1987). At the left end, there is a small 2-pane window to the cellar; ground floor has C20 4-pane window to right and first floor has smaller window to right. The external stack has slate weathering at the left side. The right end has small C20 window at ground floor to right and C20 2-light casement at first floor. At the rear there is a C20 2-light casement at ground floor and smaller C20 2-light casement at first floor. There is a C20 plank door to the cellar to right. Inferior: Not fully inspected. The room to right has C19 ceiling beams and the room to left is ceiled. The house appears to have been much altered circa mid - late C19.

Listing NGR: SX0130341674