23, BOSCAWEN STREET, 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205172
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 23, BOSCAWEN STREET, 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205172
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 23, BOSCAWEN STREET, 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 23, BOSCAWEN 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:
- 1 AND 2, CATHEDRAL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 23, BOSCAWEN 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 82632 44845
Details
TRURO
880-1/7/11 BOSCAWEN STREET 30-JUL-93 TRURO (North side) 23 CATHEDRAL LANE TRURO (West side) 1 AND 2
II Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 CATHEDRAL LANE. Includes return of Nos 1 & 2 Cathedral Lane (west side). Shops with accommodation over. Datestone 1905. Designed by Alfred J Cornelius on existing foundations. Glazed brick with freestone dressings and timber-framing to jettied and pedimented second-floor gable; dry Delabole slate roof; brick and freestone lateral chimney. Rectangular plan, end on to Boscawen Street. Eclectic Elizabethan vernacular style. 3-storeys; one-window range. Shop windows to ground floor with moulded entablature to fascia over. First floor has freestone rustications; tripartite mullioned window with horned sashes, set in triple-keyed architrave with Gibbs surround and carried on an apron consisting of a blind arcade with guttae-like brackets. Second-floor jetty, carried on 2 moulded corbels, elaborate timber-framing to recessed roughcast panels, segmental-pedimented oriel window with 2-light cross window and pilasters to dentilled open pediment. The Cathedral Lane elevation is also richly detailed and retains its original shop fronts. INTERIORS of shops altered C20, otherwise not inspected. Designed architectural specification documents together with plans by the architect Alfred J Cornelius for this building are held by Cornwall Record Office (880-1/7/11).
Listing NGR: SW8263444862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377331
- 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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