5, CROSS STREET
5, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208256
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 5, CROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208256
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 5, CROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, 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:
- 5, 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 65797 27638
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 CROSS STREET 631-1/4/106 (North side) 22/05/72 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: CROSS STREET (North side) Nos.3 AND 5)
GV II
Built as Helston Union Bank, later lawyer's office. 1788. Used by Humphry Millet Grylls, solicitor who administered the Duke of Leeds' (Godolphin) estates; continues in same practice today. Elvan ashlar with granite dressings including plinth, sills, quoins, lintels and jamb stones; grouted scantle slate roof; brick end stacks and lateral stack to rear left. Cast-iron ogee gutter. Double-depth plan including rear wings. 3 storeys; irregular 1:1:1-bay front. Original or early C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars including 2nd-floor bowed sash with decorative iron balcony to projecting central bay. Doorway is at far left with pair of 2-panel doors and Tuscan porch with entablature with moulded cornice, broken out over paired columns. Left-hand return of stair wing has unusually tall original stair window with glazing bars and fanlight head; various original rear sashes. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with ramped handrail and stick balusters, 6-panel and some 2-panel doors and 2 early C19 marble chimneypieces with later iron grates.
Listing NGR: SW6579727638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385453
- 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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