Former Offices and Remains of Foundry of Harvey and Company
FORMER OFFICES AND REMAINS OF FOUNDRY OF HARVEY AND COMPANY, 24, FOUNDRY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143685
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Former Offices and Remains of Foundry of Harvey and Company
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER OFFICES AND REMAINS OF FOUNDRY OF HARVEY AND COMPANY, 24, FOUNDRY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143685
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Nov-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Former Offices and Remains of Foundry of Harvey and Company
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER OFFICES AND REMAINS OF FOUNDRY OF HARVEY AND COMPANY, 24, FOUNDRY SQUARE
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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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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:
- FORMER OFFICES AND REMAINS OF FOUNDRY OF HARVEY AND COMPANY, 24, FOUNDRY SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55822 37164
Details
HAYLE
SW5537 FOUNDRY SQUARE 1534/10/100 HAYLE 29-APR-83 (West side) 24 Former offices and remains of foundry of Harvey and Company (Formerly listed as: FOUNDRY SQUARE HAYLE 24 No 24 (premises occupied by Slades))
GV II*
Foundry office and remains of foundry. Late C18 and early-mid C19; built by Harvey and Company; altered late C20. Stuccoed stone and boarded timber frame. Hipped grouted scantle slate roof. Brick axial stack. Slate-hung clock turret left of centre with moulded eaves cornice to pyramidal roof with gablet over each clock face. PLAN: L-shaped on plan main office range incorporating C18 foundry entrance, furnaces and limekiln; rear right-hand [SW] wing added in early-mid C19 as drawing office. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4-window north front with large round-arched carriage doorway under the right-hand window. Window to each centre bay, blind left hand bay (ground floor). Original 12-pane hornless sashes to first floor (including left-hand return). Circa early C20 windows to ground floor openings. Left-hand return wall has wide shop window. At rear weatherboarded drawing office wing raised on iron posts and with large 12-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: Substantial remains of part of original C18 foundry, including remains of a furnace, a lime kiln and part of original yard with cobbles and drain. Small part of original office, but mainly pre-1845 offices and in rear wing pre-1888 drawing office supported on cast-iron posts. Two large iron-plated armoured strong rooms supported on cast-iron piers and with cast-iron panelled doors and another strong room made of Barlow rails. Granite cantilevered stairs to office with cast-iron balustrade. Tiled lavatories. Part of the first floor of the main range has been removed. King-post roof over main front range. Clock in turret over main range made in 1893 by John H. West of Hayle, has illuminated dial.
Listing NGR: SW5582237164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70201
- 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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