Listed Building: CAPE'S STORES AND OLD ROSE AND CROWN (1296181)

Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1076, 24, 57
Date assigned 22 May 1969
Date last amended 02 January 1986
Date revoked
PORLOCK CP HIGH STREET (North side) SS8846 24/57 Old Rose and Crown and Cape's Stores adjoining to west (formerly listed as 2 separate items; The Old Rose and Crown and General Shop (M Cape)) 22.5.69 - GV II Inn and dwelling, now dwelling and shop. C17, subsequently altered. Rendered over random rubble and cob, thatched roof with asbestos slate roofed addition right, rendered stone stack left gable end, lateral stack with brick cap betweeen second and third bays left, brick stack between fourth and fifth bays and stone stack rising from eaves between sixth and seventh bays. Plan: not clear without internal inspection, shop addition right to apparent 3 cell and cross passage dwelling with 2 cells and storeroom beyond cross passage to left. Two storeys, 2:5:1 bays, end bay left unlit on first floor of façade, C19 and C20 2 and 3-light casements, except C20 shop window end bay right, 16-pane sash window to left, gabled rustic porch beyond in sixth bay with stable-type door, and flat roofed porch with half glazed door in third bay; left return small 6-pane sash window first floor; right return 2-light window and C20 entrance to shop. Interior not sighted said to contain ovolo moulded beams in room to right of sixth bay entrance with winder stair in turret projection at rear and fine small wall cupboard, missing its 4-centred arch head door but with initials I H and A H and the date 1624. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1982). Listing NGR: SS8861246707

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Grid reference Centred SS 8861 4671 (31m by 19m)
Map sheet SS84NE
Civil Parish PORLOCK, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

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