THE LOWENAC HOTEL

THE LOWENAC HOTEL, 34, BASSET ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142690
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: THE LOWENAC HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE LOWENAC HOTEL, 34, BASSET ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-05
Reference:: IOE01/06739/17
Rights:: © Mr Alex Wallis. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142690
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: THE LOWENAC HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE LOWENAC HOTEL, 34, BASSET ROAD

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE LOWENAC HOTEL, 34, BASSET 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 64577 39709

Details

CAMBORNE BASSET ROAD SW 63 NW (west side) 10/19 No.34 (The Lowenac Hotel) GV II House, now hotel. Said to be 1845; altered and extended. Stucco, presumably on rubble, modern tiled roof. Double-pile plan, now with modern entrance vestibule at left end. Two storeys; symmetrical 4-bay facade has corner pilasters and 4-pane sashed windows with moulded architraves, those at ground floor taller and with cornices on consoles; 2- span hipped roof with projecting eaves, no chimneys. Modern single-storey entrance vestibule at left end not of special interest. Rear has inter alia a single-storey canted bay and a round-headed stairwindow; modern extension not of special interest. Interior: original front door at left end with set-in fluted columns, margin glazing and fanlight with intersecting tracery; axial hallway; elaborate moulded plaster decoration in hallway and principal rooms including fluted Corinthian pilasters, foliated modillions, cornices with egg-and-dart, acanthus and vine, and fine undercut ribbon and lily decoration; front rooms connected by large doorway with elaborate architrave, flanked by curved doorways in rounded corners; large open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, 2 slender turned balusters per tread, wreathed handrail

Listing NGR: SW6457739709

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Legacy System number:: 66564
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.