Description

SX 15 SW LANGEGLOS-BY-FOWEY HARBOUR, POLRUAN

8/84 Quayside Hotel and
- Reading Rooms

GV II

Hotel, adjoining house and reading rooms to rear. Circa early C19. Reading rooms
opened 1875. Rubble stone with slate roof with gabled ends with hipped and gabled
projecting left hand wing. 3 storeys to harbour front and single storey to West
Street. Hotel on left with asymmetrical regular 5-window front. Projecting wing at
left with double doors inserted to right, 2 C20 4-light casement windows with glazed
door between flanked by 2 granite posts under lean-to roof. Horned sash 8 panes
each sash to first floor. Plastic sash to second floor of projecting wing. 3
hornless timber sashes 8 panes per sash to first and second floor of harbour front
with tall round-headed staircase window to left of centre 18 panes each sash.
Adjoining on right hand gable end, regular 2-window front breaking forward under
higher roof with 4-pane sash under brick soldier arches on 3 floors. To rear,
single storey reading room with barometer on south east side.
Included for group value. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX1259950986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433134

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair