Polperro Harbour Museum (Formerly L'Teglios Fish Cellars)
Polperro Harbour Museum, The Warren, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2RB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329077
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Polperro Harbour Museum (Formerly L'Teglios Fish Cellars)
- Statutory Address:
- Polperro Harbour Museum, The Warren, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2RB
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329077
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Polperro Harbour Museum (Formerly L'Teglios Fish Cellars)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Polperro Harbour Museum, The Warren, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2RB
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Polperro Harbour Museum, The Warren, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2RB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 21007 50990
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 July 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to a change in building use, and to reformat the text to current standards
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LANSALLOS
Polperro
THE WARREN, (south side),
Polperro Harbour Museum (Formerly L'Teglios Fish Cellars)
(Formerly liisted as L' Teglios Fish Cellars, THE WARREN)
GV
II
Fish cellars later used as store for fishing industry, now a museum. Probably late C19. Stone rubble with corrugated iron and asbestos roofs with gable ends. Further ranges with lean-to corrugated iron roofs to rear. Several ranges of cellars, rectangular in plan running roughly parallel to the north harbour wall. These cellars are single storied and have a series of timber double doors. The harbour side has a series of single and double plank doors and originally had a balcony which projected over the edge of the harbour wall.
Interior: much of floor cement screed in late C20. Timber flooring along side wall of one range, possibly laid above drain. Salt cellar to rear with trap door in roof for top loading.
Included for group value.
According to Jonathan Couch the first seine was established in Polperro in 1782 and in 1783 the first export of pilchards was made. In the early C20 two Italians known as the Teglio Brothers settled in Polperro to export pilchards to Italy. They leased the fish store directly below Pallace Court, later known as L'Teglio's Fish Cellar. For Photograph taken inside the cellars see de Burlet, S Portrait of Polperro, 1977. Couch, J The History of Polperro 1871. Noall, C Cornish Seines and Seiners 1972.
Listing NGR: SX2109650946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couch, J, History of Polperro (1871),
Noall, C, Cornish Seines and Seiners (1972),
De Burlet, S, Portrait of Polperro (1977),
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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