Colchester Villas
COLCHESTER VILLAS, 40-46, FALMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201454
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Colchester Villas
- Statutory Address:
- COLCHESTER VILLAS, 40-46, FALMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201454
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Colchester Villas
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLCHESTER VILLAS, 40-46, FALMOUTH 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:
- COLCHESTER VILLAS, 40-46, FALMOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Truro
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82270 44223
Details
TRURO
SW8244SW FALMOUTH ROAD 880-1/10/57 (West side) Nos.40-46 (Even) Colchester Villas
GV II
Terrace of 4 houses. Late C19. Dressed stone brought to course, granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs; some patterned slates to steep roofs of towers; rendered axial chimneys with original chimney pots; cast-iron ogee gutters except on left. Symmetrical double-depth plan plus service wing. French Renaissance/Baronial style. 2 storeys plus attics. Symmetrical 1:1:1:1:2:2:1:1:1:1-bay east front has panelled doors, mullioned windows with original sashes, moulded hoods and cornices. The end houses are L-shaped with 3-storey towers over porches in the angles. Left-hand house (mirror-image of right-hand house) has central 3-storey tower porch, with steep roof over corbelled cornice, in the angle between recessed bay, on the left, and projecting bay on the right; porch has round-headed doorway; projecting bay has canted ground-floor bay window with ironwork balcony, and roof dormer set in ramped gable surmounted by triangular pediment. Smaller middle houses have canted bay windows and flanking doors set within 5-bay loggia with basket and round arches to arcade surmounted by decorative iron balustrade; 2 central first-floor bays break forward and are surmounted by canted dormers with hipped roofs. INTERIORS: where inspected have original plasterwork and joinery details.
Listing NGR: SW8227044223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377376
- 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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