18, CHURCH STREET
18, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195971
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 18, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195971
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 18, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, CHURCH 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:
- 18, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 33187 84642
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX3284 CHURCH STREET 660-1/4/42 (West side) 13/09/72 No.18 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (West side) Nos.8-18 (Even))
GV II
Town house with later shop. Mid C19 on older site. Stucco front; rag slate roof with central gabled roof dormer behind parapet with moulded cornice; brick stack on right. Double-depth plan with ope (through passage) on its left. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Original 12-pane hornless sashes within moulded stucco architraves, those to 1st floor with ears. Ground floor has c1900 double shop front with granite quoins strips with caps flanking shop and round-arched ope doorway on the left; marble stall risers; plate glass windows including quadrant-fronted return lights flanking doorway with glazed door and overlight; slender turned mullions with tree-of-life heads; full width entablature with moulded cornices with blind slot over shop and end consoles with open pediments to shop and ope. Rear left-hand return has tall stair sash with small panes. INTERIOR: original open-well open-string stair; original details to 1st floor including panelled doors; moulded ceiling cornice to front chamber and projecting sash frames. HISTORY: said that John Wesley preached from the front chamber of building on this site on his first visit to Launceston in 1762.
Listing NGR: SX3318084644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369972
- 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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