6, FORE STREET, 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
1, TELEGRAPH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162379
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET, 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162379
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET, 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 6, FORE 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:
- 1, TELEGRAPH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Day
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 72920 42515
Details
ST DAY FORE STREET SW 74 SW (north side, corner of 11/350 Telegraph Street) No.6, with No.1 Telegraph Street GV II Shop and 2 cottages, now shop and one dwelling, with attached shop and cottage now house (No.1 Telegraph Street). Early C19; altered. Cross-wall construction, the cross walls of stone and the front and rear walls of light post-and-rail construction infilled with rubble, with slate-hung cladding painted white, on a plinth of large granite blocks; slurried slate roof (No.1 Telegraph Street has tiles imitating slate). On oblique corner site, single-depth trapezoidal plan with shop at left end, and No.1 Telegraph Street attached and slightly canted back at the right-hand end. Two low storeys and 3+2 bays in total; the shop has a chamfered corner containing the doorway, a wide shop-window of 6 large panes, and another doorway to the right, both doorways with pilaster jambs, and all under a plain fascia and simple cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; at 1st floor, the end over the doorway has an inverted triangle of fishscale slates, and the front has a 4-pane sashed window. To the right, each cottage has one 4-pane sash on each floor, with the doorway to the 2nd cottage between the ground-floor windows; and rear-wall chimneys. No.1 Telegraph Street, of 2 bays slightly canted back, has an altered former shop front in the 1st bay, with slender pilastered jambs to a blocked doorway at its right-hand end, and a 4-pane sash and modern doorway to the left, all under a plain fascia and cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; one 4-pane sash to the right and 2 above; and a gable chimney. Interior: cottages to right of shop were formerly one-up-one-down, each with a deep square granite fireplace in the rear wall; plaster now removed to expose wall construction; modern additions to rear. Forms an attractive enclosure to the north-west side of a triangular junction which was formerly the site of St Day cross.
Listing NGR: SW7292042515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66916
- 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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