Royal Hotel
82, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201496
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 82, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201496
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 82, LEMON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 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:
- 82, LEMON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 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 82624 44762
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/180 (West side) 29/12/50 No.82 and Royal Hotel
GV II
Public house incorporating 2 former houses. 1799. By William Wood, architect. Newham freestone ashlar front; main building has asbestos slate roof behind parapet with hipped return on the left, late C19 gabled dormers, brick axial stacks. Smaller wing (left) has hipped asbestos slate roof and tall rendered stack on the left. Large rectangular double-depth plan has been altered in C20 to provide shop encompassing original part of public house right of entrance hall and the former house at far right. 3 storeys; overall 8-window range. Plinth, string courses, moulded cornice to parapet and flat arches with key blocks plus low 3-window front of wing on the left. Originally symmetrical public house has 1:3:1-fenestration to front with central bays broken forward, central doorway with hood on consoles; large C20 shop front to right continuing under former house; 2 original hornless sashes to ground floor left of doorway, others modified or C20 with tilting lights, all with glazing bars. Small wing on left has symmetrical front with central doorway with moulded hood, stone ashlar to ground floor, otherwise stuccoed. INTERIOR: original or early C19 moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands to 2 reception rooms on the left linked by wide segmental-arched doorway. Barrel vault of entrance vestibule has 2 wide doorways with concentric spoked fanlights over pilasters. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8262444762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377491
- 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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