Description

LANDEWEDNACK CHURCH COVE
SW 71 SW
9/67 Church Cottage and Wynwallow
Cottage, and Church Town
Farmhouse (formerly listed as the
10 7 57 Laurels and Churchtown Farm
Cottage)
GV II
Farmhouse now 2 dwellings. C17. Whitewashed stone base with upper walls of
whitewashed stone and plastered cob. Stone east gable end. Timber lintels and
slate sills. Thatched roof. Large stone chimney stack on east gable end and brick
chimney on ridge right-hand of centre. 3 unit with cross passage and projecting
staircase bay on front. Later extensions on rear and single storey extensions on
east, previously with steeply pitched roof, now low pitched. 1½ storeys, 2
horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars flank C19 partly glazed entrance
door. Staircase projection to right (west) with small window. On right of
projection, small horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars to left of
second entrance door. On first floor 5 horizontal sliding sash windows with
glazing bars, directly below eaves. Left-hand fireplace (east) partly blocked with
Cornish range, only end of cut timber lintel. Visible within fringle (smoking
chamber). Proportion of first floor joists have been replaced. Collar rafter roof
pegged at apex. Attached to rear of building, dwelling now hen house. Possibly
pre-1700 stone base with unplastered cob walls and slate roof. 2 storey with
window opening on ground floor enlarged to form entrance. First floor joists and
roof timbers replaced. Attached on right-hand side of Wynwallow Cottage (to west)
Church Town Farmhouse, mid-C19 of 2 storeys, symmetrical, rendered with slate roof
and rendered chimneys on gable ends. 2 sash windows (12 pane) on ground floor with
central round-headed entrance. 3 sash windows (12 pane) above. Wing at right
angles to rear extending southwards, C18. Whitewashed stone base with upper cob
walls. Asymmetrical with later extension on front and altered windows on facade.
Corrugated roof replaced thatch in 1940s. Reputed to have contained coat of arms
(now gone) altered. (Interior of Church Town Farmhouse not inspected).

Listing NGR: SW7110112582

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434665

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide