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
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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