County Museum and Library (Royal Institution of Cornwall)
COUNTY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL), RIVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201526
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- County Museum and Library (Royal Institution of Cornwall)
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL), RIVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201526
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- County Museum and Library (Royal Institution of Cornwall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL), RIVER 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:
- COUNTY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY (ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL), RIVER 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:
- SW8237744884
Details
TRURO
SW8244NW RIVER STREET
880-1/6/263 (North side)
08/01/71 County Museum and Library (Royal
Institution of Cornwall)
GV II
Savings bank, now museum. 1845. By Philip Sambell for the
Trustees of the Truro Savings Bank. Granite ashlar front,
asbestos slate roof with central pediment and parapet. Large
rectangular plan, plus wings at sides and rear, with central
entrance hall leading to a very large stair hall with an
imperial stair to balcony on all sides. Classical style. 2
storeys; symmetrical 5-window front. Plinth; articulated by
giant Ionic pilasters dividing bays with 3 central bays broken
slightly forward and surmounted by triangular pediment;
central distyle Doric porch with Doric entablature and central
elliptical-arched doorway with fanlight, C20 door; other
openings with shallow elliptical arches over C20 horned
sashes: those to first floor with glazing bars. INTERIOR:
complete and has many interesting features including large
central hall lit by glazed roof, with key-pattern ventilator,
over segmental ribs with ceiling cornices with modillions;
imperial stair to gallery on large moulded brackets, moulded
architraves and rear lunette over pairs of Ionic columns, also
panelled ceilings with moulded ribs to side galleries. A
competent classical composition by this notable Truro
architect.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its
Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8237744884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377574
- 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.
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