DOWTY'S

DOWTY'S, KENWYN STREET

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Overview

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

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Date:: 2001-08-28
Reference:: IOE01/03492/08
Rights:: © Margaret Hocking. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1201471
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:: DOWTY'S
Statutory Address 1:: DOWTY'S, KENWYN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 377427
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.