Trevu House
TREVU HOUSE, TREVU ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142645
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevu House
- Statutory Address:
- TREVU HOUSE, TREVU ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142645
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevu House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREVU HOUSE, TREVU ROAD
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:
- TREVU HOUSE, TREVU ROAD
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 65091 39410
Details
CAMBORNE TREVU ROAD SW 63 NE (west side) 8/107 Trevu House II
Large house, now subdivided as various dwellings. Early C19, altered. Uncoursed rubble, the west facade rendered and the south pebble-dashed; roof of slate on the front slopes and modern pantiles on the rear. Large U-plan formed by main range on north-south axis with long rear wings. All 2 storeys; symmetrical north facade of 3:3:3 bays, the centre breaking forwards slightly; high plinth, banded corner pilasters. The 3-bay pilastered centre has a central entrance up a flight of 6 steps with nosings, protected by a tetrastyle Doric porch with fluted granite columns and unfluted pilasters, wooden entablature with triglyphs, panelled and glazed door with margin panes; two 12-pane sashed windows on each floor and a 16-pane sash above the porch, all unhorned and with exposed boxes and raised sills and keystones; and a plain parapet with an urn at the right- hand corner. The 3-bay side ranges each have 2 large canted bay windows in the outer bays, with 12- and 16-pane sashes, a 12-pane sash in the centre and 3 others above, all matching those of the centre. The south wing is of bays, with a flat-roofed pilastered porch to the 1st bay, a 2- storey canted bay in the centre, a doorway in the 4th bay, and otherwise 4-pane sashed fenestration. The north (service) wing has inter alia some 12-pane sashed windows; the rear is mostly altered, interior not inspected. History: said to have been built for the Pickford Smith family, manufacturers of explosives.
Listing NGR: SW6509139410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66655
- 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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