2 to 26 and 27-28 Mills Street, attached rear garden wall and outhouses
2-26, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253198
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 2 to 26 and 27-28 Mills Street, attached rear garden wall and outhouses
- Statutory Address:
- 2-26, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253198
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 2 to 26 and 27-28 Mills Street, attached rear garden wall and outhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-26, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
- Statutory Address 2:
- 27-28, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
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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.
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:
- 2-26, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
- Statutory Address:
- 27-28, Mills Street, St Day, TR16 5LL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Day
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 73049 42643
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/04/2020
SW 74 SW
11/10006
ST DAY
MILLS STREET (South side)
Nos. 2 to 26 (Even) and 27-28 and attached rear garden wall and outhouses
GV
II
Row of fifteen houses. Mostly early 1840s, with some houses completed later in decade. Nos 27-28 of coursed rubble with granite lintels and quoins and Nos 2 and 4 of brick with granite quoins and lintels; otherwise of coursed and dressed granite; gabled artificial slate roofs with brick stacks. Mostly single-depth plans with rear outshots; one mid C20 flat-roofed rear extension.
Two storeys; twenty four-window first-floor range. Granite lintels over two/two-pane sashes (originally four/four-pane but with horizontal glazing bars removed) and over C20 doors except original six-panel doors with narrow overlights to Nos 2, 12-18 and 24; No 4 is a larger double-fronted house. Nos 27 and 28 have copper plaque and wreath to first-floor centre commemorating endowment of this street by William John Mills "to the old people of St Day for their benefit and comfort".
Interior said to include original joinery and stick-baluster staircases with turned newels.
Subsidiary Features: rubble rear garden walls with slate-roofed former privies.
With Nos 1-25 (qv) these form an exceptionally well-preserved row of workers' housing, Mills Street having been built for the accommodation of miners in the surrounding orefields.
Listing NGR: SW7304942643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436351
- 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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