2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE

2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201546
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE
Statutory Address:
2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201546
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE
Statutory Address 1:
2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
2-16, WALSINGHAM PLACE

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 82516 44751

Details

TRURO

SW8244NE WALSINGHAM PLACE 880-1/7/317 Nos.2-16 (Consecutive) 29/12/50

GV II

Planned street of 2 terraces of small town houses, many of which are now offices. Early C19, possibly by Philip Sambell. Nos 2-6 have original stucco, Nos 8-16 have been stripped to reveal rubble walls with brick dressings; dry Delabole slate to Nos 2-16 otherwise asbestos slate roofs with brick end stacks; Nos 2-6 have projecting eaves on wooden brackets. 2 terraces of shallow-depth-plan houses built on a curve: Nos 2-6 & 16 each have 2 rooms at the front, a small service room behind one room and stair hall behind the other; Nos 8-15 consists of 4 pairs of houses each with one room at the front. 2 storeys; symmetrical 1:1:1-bay fronts with 2 windows to each of Nos 2-6 and to each pair and 3 windows to No.16. All have original 12-pane hornless sashes; pairs of flat pilasters dividing the recessed bays and doorcases with lions' heads as corbels to flat hoods and panelled doors; No.16 has blocked windows on the far right. INTERIORS: where inspected retain most of their original carpentry, joinery and plasterwork. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8251644751

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Legacy System number:
377627
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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