Kensey Place
KENSEY PLACE, DOCKACRE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195977
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kensey Place
- Statutory Address:
- KENSEY PLACE, DOCKACRE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195977
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kensey Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENSEY PLACE, DOCKACRE ROAD
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:
- KENSEY PLACE, DOCKACRE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3341184617
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX3284 DOCKACRE ROAD
660-1/4/55 Kensey Place
GV II
Prison, later workhouse and almshouses. C17, substantially
rebuilt late C18.
Rubble with granite dressings to rear wing basements; brick
laid to Flemish bond front; steep bitumen-grouted steep rag
slate roofs with projecting front eaves; moulded cornice and
hipped returns; brick axial stacks and lateral stacks to outer
walls of rear wings.
Large U-shaped plan built on slope down at rear.
2 storeys over basement; nearly symmetrical 5:3:5-window road
front with gable (formerly a pediment) with oculus over
slightly-projecting central bays. Segmental arches over
various windows including 2 mid C19 six-pane hornless sashes
to 1st floor right; many old 2-light casements with glazing
bars and some C20 casements, 6 x C20 glazed doors; central
doorway to reduced through passage.
Basement of left-hand rear wing has chamfered 4-centred arched
doorway; 2-light hollow-chamfered and mullioned window on its
left. Wing opposite has heightened 4-centred arched doorway
and outer frame of window.
Rear elevation has original rubble masonry to ground floor
with some openings spanned by oak lintels.
History: In 1664 appalling conditions were reported by a
Quaker named Joseph Coale. In 1803 James Neil describes the
prison as "... a scene of filth, rags and wretchedness
scarcely exceeded in the Tollbooth of Glasgow."
In 1834 the last public flogging was administered to
J.K.Lethbridge, who was tied to a tree in the yard, given 25
lashes, and sentenced to 3 months in the Bridewell for
assault.
(Launceston, Past and Present: Robbins AF: Launceston: 1888-:
P.215, 291 AND 306).
Listing NGR: SX3341184617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369985
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 215
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 291
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 306
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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