DOWTY'S

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201471
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1993
Statutory Address:
DOWTY'S, KENWYN STREET

Map

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Location

Statutory Address:
DOWTY'S, KENWYN STREET

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 82431 44829

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
377427
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
River Street and its Neighbourhood, (1980)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

End of official listing

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Date: 28 Aug 2001
Reference: IOE01/03492/08
Rights: Copyright IoE Margaret Hocking. Source Historic England Archive
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