No 53 and Attached Forecourt Railings
NO 53 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201489
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- No 53 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO 53 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201489
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- No 53 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 53 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53, LEMON STREET
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:
- NO 53 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53, LEMON 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 82459 44552
Details
TRURO
SW8244NW LEMON STREET 880-1/6/157 (West side) 29/12/50 No.53 and attached forecourt railings
GV II
Small town house, now office. c1832. Dressed coursed local stone front, dry Delabole slate roof with 2 hipped dormers and brick chimneys over gable ends (party wall on right). Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 2-window range to front. 2 round-arched doorways on the right: doorway on left has open pediment over engaged fluted columns and panelled reveals; both doorways have 6-panel doors and spoked fanlights; original hornless sashes with glazing bars: under flat arch to ground floor and shallow cambered arches to first floor, all with projecting keyblocks. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: close-spaced wrought-iron railings with scrolled arrow-head finials flank entrance with pair of gates and return over granite plinth of shallow forecourt. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8245944552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lemon 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.
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