Nos 80 and 81 and Attached Forecourt Railings
NOS 80 AND 81 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 80 AND 81, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201495
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 80 and 81 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 80 AND 81 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 80 AND 81, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201495
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 80 and 81 and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 80 AND 81 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 80 AND 81, 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:
- NOS 80 AND 81 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 80 AND 81, 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 82610 44730
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/175 (West side) 29/12/50 Nos.80 AND 81 and attached forecourt railings
GV II
Large town house, now commercial premises. c1807. For William Mudge, furniture merchant. Local freestone ashlar front, otherwise brick-faced, natural slate roof with projecting eaves, stuccoed end stack on the left. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall and 2 large reception rooms at the front. 3 storeys over basement; symmetrical 5-window range to front. 2 central round-arched doorways with panelled reveals, 6-panel doors and fanlights, wide distyle Doric porch with fluted columns and moulded entablature with guttae to sides and mutules to cornice. First-floor sill string, tall central round-headed niche with square panel above; moulded eaves cornice and shallow segmental arches over sashes with glazing bars: original hornless sashes to 2nd floor, horned copies to first floor and false sashes with pivoting top lights to ground floor. Right-hand return has 3-window front with blind openings except for 12-pane sash to ground-floor left and 4 small later windows to piers to ground and first-floors on the right. INTERIOR: No.82 has many original features including 2 elaborate plaster panelled ceilings with moulded ribs and carved pendants (the one to the rear room much restored); panelled shutters and panelled doors between scribed pilasters and with moulded hoods; plaster vaulted vestibule with acanthus central roses and moulded pilasters leading through round-arched doorway with fluted columns to stair hall with open-well open-string staircase with mahogany handrail scrolled over newel. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings with scrolled spear-head finials stand over forecourt plinth and return at either end.
Listing NGR: SW8261044730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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