26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187660
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187660
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 28, ST THOMAS 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:
- 26 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78594 34284
Details
PENRYN
SW7834SE ST THOMAS STREET 580-1/6/156 (West side) Nos.26 AND 28
GV II
2 town houses, possibly originally 1 house. Late C18/early C19. Render on rubble front with string at 1st-floor meeting rail level; steep asbestos slate roof with projecting front eaves over moulded cornice; brick stack on left. Shallow-depth plan plus rear wing on left. 3 storeys; 3-window range (2nd floor). Blocked window to 2nd-floor left and early C19 sixteen-pane hornless sashes; 2 early/mid C19 twelve-pane sashes to 1st floor; left-hand window over pair of C20 copy sashes, other window over single 4-pane horned sash; 2 doorways including central ope (through-passage) doorway between windows; another doorway at far left; C20 doors. To 2nd floor towards left is incised stone possibly from the former Glasney College (qv) with inscription of the Lord's Prayer. INTERIOR: in 1980 had many C18 features including 2-panel doors and presumably retains C18 pegged roof structure. (The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).
Listing NGR: SW7859434284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Penryn Survey Group Report in Penryn Survey Group, (1980-1990)
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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