Lismore
LISMORE, 2, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208176
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lismore
- Statutory Address:
- LISMORE, 2, CROSS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208176
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lismore
- Statutory Address 1:
- LISMORE, 2, CROSS 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:
- LISMORE, 2, CROSS 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 65808 27594
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 CROSS STREET 631-1/4/98 (South side) 22/05/72 No.2 Lismore
GV II
Large detached house in town. c1810. Extended 1840s probably by George Wightwick. Stucco on rubble with granite plinth and mid-floor string course; dry slate hipped roofs with projecting moulded eaves with dentils. Double-depth plan plus service wing set back on the left. 2 storeys; N street front with symmetrical 3-window front on its right. Original 16-pane hornless sashes; central round-arched doorway; 6-panel door and petalled fanlight. Principal 3-window east entrance front has doorway resited from No.21 Meneage Street (qv) with fluted Doric columns and frieze with triglyph door with margin panes; C20 window right of doorway otherwise original 12-pane hornless sashes; 3-window garden front with original 1st-floor sashes and later C19 canted bay on left. Large late C19 conservatory to ground floor. INTERIOR: fine quality early and mid C19 plasterwork and carpentry details including moulded and carved bands with trailing detail and egg and dart cornices in the 3 reception rooms, the 2 right-hand rooms linked by opening with 2 pairs of Corinthian columns; good chimneypiece to left-hand room; 1840s surround and hob gate (similar to one at Penhellis (qv)) to right-hand room by Wightwick; large oval stair hall with open-well staircase with handrail scrolled over newel; enriched oval guilloche ceiling band over stairs; moulded ceiling bands to entrance hall and vestibule (the original entrance hall), also a diagonally-set stone floor and panelled doors and window shutters. Service wing has many old or original fittings including a good quality dresser with fluted pilasters and moulded cornice. The back stair has a turned newel and stick balusters. The setting of this house is an important part of its overall rare well-preserved quality; it overlooks a large well-landscaped garden right in the middle of Helston and forms part of a group of outstanding buildings in Cross Street, Church Street, Lady Street and Coinagehall Street.
Listing NGR: SW6580827594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385445
- 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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