26, CHURCH STREET
26, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206285
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206285
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, CHURCH 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:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 33196 84600
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX3284 CHURCH STREET 660-1/4/46 (West side) 27/02/50 No.26
GV II*
Inn, later shop with accommodation. C17, remodelled C18 and C19. Render on timber-frame to jettied front; corbelled end of masonry wall on left, steep rag slate roof with asbestos slatehanging to front gables, and to much of rear. Single-depth plan gable ends on to the streetplus wing at angle to rear right. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 copies of mid C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars; paired sashes to 1st floor. Ground floor has C20 double shop front with splayed central doorway; house doorway on the left with C20 door with integral 6-pane overlight. Slatehung rear has large rubble lateral stack. INTERIOR retains most of its C17 structure and features including: oak studwork partitions, roof structures; ovolo-moulded doorframes and scratch-moulded doors with some old red and brown paint; ovolo-moulded outer frames of former mullioned windows, some with headrail only; chamfered granite fireplaces with splayed backs; octagonal stone pier between ground floor areas and complex-moulded oak doorframe into rear wing with large hidden fireplace and, of particular interest, a semi-circular stair turret with winders and a domed ceiling structure. A remarkably complete C17 interior.
Listing NGR: SX3319584601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369976
- 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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