The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings

THE WILLOWS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 35, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207669
Date first listed:
22-May-1972
List Entry Name:
The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
Statutory Address:
THE WILLOWS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 35, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207669
Date first listed:
22-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
The Willows and Attached Forecourt Walls and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
THE WILLOWS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 35, CHURCH STREET

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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:
THE WILLOWS AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 35, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Helston
National Grid Reference:
SW 65867 27654

Details

HELSTON

SW6427 CHURCH STREET 631-1/4/30 (East side) 22/05/72 No.35 The Willows, and attached forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (East side) No.35 RDC Offices)

GV II

Large town house, now offices. 1776, altered, heightened and extended in the C20. Newham stone ashlar with plinth, sill strings, mid-floor band and moulded cornice to parapet; rendered additional storey above parapet with hipped asbestos slate roof. Large plan with C20 extension on the right and deep wing at rear left. Mid Georgian style. Original front is 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 1:1:1 bays with central entrance bay flanked by wide 3-light canted bays. Late C19 two-pane hornless sashes; round-arched central lights to ground floor of bays, otherwise flat arches; original round-arched doorway with open pediment, engaged Tuscan columns surmounted by entablature and petalled fanlight over altered panelled door. 5-bay extension above with 20-pane sashes and 1-bay pastiche extension on right with letterbox on its left. Rear has original Venetian stair window. INTERIOR: entrance hall with original moulded ceiling cornice with dentils; stair hall with moulded ceiling cornice and Doric frieze to stair window. Subsidiary features: granite ashlar plinth to forecourt walls surmounted by wrought-iron railings with close-set bars, doubled to bottom with arrow-head finials; basement gate on the right.

Listing NGR: SW6586727654

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Legacy System number:
385379
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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