Old town hall and court house

Old Courthouse, Redruth Club, Penryn Street, Redruth, TR15 2SP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142565
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1978
List Entry Name:: Old town hall and court house
Statutory Address:: Old Courthouse, Redruth Club, Penryn Street, Redruth, TR15 2SP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142565
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: Old town hall and court house
Statutory Address 1:: Old Courthouse, Redruth Club, Penryn Street, Redruth, TR15 2SP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Old Courthouse, Redruth Club, Penryn Street, Redruth, TR15 2SP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Redruth
National Grid Reference:: SW 69826 41869

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to update the name, address and text on the 20 July 2022 SW 64 SE 11/290

REDRUTH PENRYN STREET (west side) Old Courthouse

(Formerly listed as Old Town Hall)

28.9.78

GV II

Town Hall, now club. 1850, by Robert Blee; altered. Granite ashlar, slate roof. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and three bays, symmetrical, in Doric style, with raised quoins, first floor string-course, and triglyph frieze; in the centre, a wide recessed porch with Tuscan columns distyle in antis, triglyph frieze with roundels on the metopes, and a cornice, channelled rustication to the interior of the porch finished as quoins to the surround, and panelled double doors (the top panels glazed); above the porch, a tripartite sashed window in an architrave with pilaster jambs, plain frieze and prominent cornice; two 12-pane sashed windows on each floor, those at ground floor with quoined surrounds, stepped voussoirs, and panelled aprons, and those above with broad shouldered architraves; crowning frieze of triglyphs with wreaths; mutules to projecting eaves. Gable chimneys. Interior: imperial staircase with stick balusters; full-width room at first floor formerly used as courtroom, but altered; otherwise, altered.

HISTORY: built under the Small Debts Act of 1846 which allowed the Redruth court to follow up smaller debts it was owed rather than visiting the assize courts in Bodmin. Robert Blee was an inventor of mine safety technology; his initials and the date of construction appear on the left-hand side of the main elevation, and in the late-C19 the terrace within which the building sits was called Blee’s Terrace. The building later became the offices of Thurstan Peter (1854-1917), the solicitor and historian who excavated the Neolithic and Iron Age settlements on Carn Brea in the late 1890s, as recorded on a plaque on the front elevation.

Listing NGR: SW6982641869

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.