DOWTY'S
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: DOWTY'S
List entry Number: 1201471
Location
DOWTY'S, KENWYN STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cornwall
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Truro
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 30-Jul-1993
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 377427
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
TRURO
SW8244NW KENWYN STREET
880-1/6/111 (North side)
Dowty's
GV II
Nonconformist (Primitive Methodist) chapel, later the City
Mission, now used as a shop. 1878. Dressed granite brought to
course. Steep Delabole slate roofs with coped gable at the
front. Main roof and lean-to roofs over same timber structure.
Rectangular single-vessel plan. Gothic style. Symmetrical
south entrance front has central tall buttressed gable end
flanked by lean-tos resembling aisles with splayed corners.
Shallow central gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway;
flanking lancets, moulded string, rose window over porch and 3
stepped lights to gable. Buttresses are surmounted by tall
pinnacles. Side walls are lit by tall lancets, main lighting
is from long wooden clerestorey windows with pointed-arched
lights. INTERIOR: Arch-braced roof structure with laminated
braces. Clerestorey windows carried over roof structure.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its
Neighbourhood).
Listing NGR: SW8243144829
Selected Sources
Books and journals
River Street and its Neighbourhood, (1980)
National Grid Reference: SW 82431 44829
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