16 AND 17, LEMON STREET
16 AND 17, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205568
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, LEMON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 17, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205568
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, LEMON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 17, 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:
- 16 AND 17, 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 82621 44693
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/126 (East side) 29/12/50 Nos.16 AND 17
GV II
Town house. c1798. By Hill, builder for Noel Penrose, tailor. Granite ashlar basement, local freestone ashlar above with natural slate roof behind parapet and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall between 2 front reception rooms. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 3-window front. Central doorcase with slender engaged Tuscan columns and moulded entablature with dentilled cornice, panelled reveals, 6-panel door and overlight with traceried glazing bars; first-floor sill string, moulded parapet cornice and original or early C19 twelve-pane sashes under shallow segmental arches with projecting key blocks. Ground-floor masonry left of doorway has at some time been rebuilt possibly to replace former shop front. Original panel doors to basement. INTERIOR: has much of its original carpentry and joinery details. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8262144693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377441
- 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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