Old Council Offices
OLD COUNCIL OFFICES, TREVENSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142644
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Council Offices
- Statutory Address:
- OLD COUNCIL OFFICES, TREVENSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142644
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Council Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD COUNCIL OFFICES, TREVENSON STREET
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.
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:
- OLD COUNCIL OFFICES, TREVENSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 64821 39832
Details
CAMBORNE TREVENSON STREET SW 63 NW (north side, corner of Cross Street) 10/104 23.2.87 Old Council Offices GV II Council offices and fire station; now religious centre. Circa 1900. Rock- faced squared granite rubble and ashlar, dressed granite details, slate roof. Large rectangular block on corner site. Renaissance style. Two storeys, with angled corner and asymmetrical facades to both streets; chamfered plinth, moulded cornices to both floors; the 8-bay facade to Trevenson Street has the main entrance in the 3rd bay, which is all of ashlar and breaks forward slightly, with a wide segmental-headed doorway (furnished with Renaissance-style diamond-panelled doors) framed by stout Ionic pedestalled columns of polished granite carrying an open pediment, and is finished above the 1st floor with an elaborate shaped gablet containing a vertical oeil-de-boeuf and flanked by panelled chimney stacks. The 1st, 5th, and 8th bays also break forwards slightly and are finished with shaped gablets; the 6th and 7th bays contain former fire-engine doorways (now glazed), and the 8th has a doorway with a pediment above; otherwise, large cross-windows with glazing bars on both floors ; octagonal arcaded fleche on ridge of roof in line with main doorway. Two-bay facade to Cross Street in matching style, including a 2-light window projected on corbels at 1st floor of 2nd bay. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW6482139832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66652
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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