Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, PAUL'S TERRACE, TR1 1HD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201508
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, PAUL'S TERRACE, TR1 1HD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201508
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, PAUL'S TERRACE, TR1 1HD
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:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, PAUL'S TERRACE, TR1 1HD
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 82676 45188
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/11/2016
SW 8245 SE,
880-1/4/210
TRURO,
PAUL'S TERRACE (East side),
Friends' Meeting House
(Formerly Listed as: PAUL'S TERRACE, Quaker Meeting House)
19.06.73
G.V.
II
Meeting house. 1825. For Mr Tweedy. Freestone ashlar porch,
otherwise dressed coursed local stone, asbestos slate hipped
main roof, grouted scantle slate roof to porch. Rectangular
plan. Single storey; front of 4-window range has plinth,
central flat-roofed porch, moulded wooden eaves cornice and
shallow segmental arches with projecting keystones over
original 30-pane hornless sashes; wide doorway into right-hand
side of porch. Right-hand end is a 2-window-range entrance
front with similar sashes but copies, porch has doorway on its
left. INTERIOR: slightly altered 1980s but retains the
original panelled minister's gallery with steps with ramped
handrails at either end and original vertically-sliding
panelled screens to either side of entrance hall.
Listing NGR: SW8267645188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377523
- 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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