Warehouse Occupied By Bridon Ropes Limited (The Grain Store)

WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY BRIDON ROPES LIMITED (THE GRAIN STORE), FALMOUTH DOCKS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270141
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
Warehouse Occupied By Bridon Ropes Limited (The Grain Store)
Statutory Address:
WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY BRIDON ROPES LIMITED (THE GRAIN STORE), FALMOUTH DOCKS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270141
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:
Warehouse Occupied By Bridon Ropes Limited (The Grain Store)
Statutory Address 1:
WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY BRIDON ROPES LIMITED (THE GRAIN STORE), FALMOUTH DOCKS

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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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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:
WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY BRIDON ROPES LIMITED (THE GRAIN STORE), FALMOUTH DOCKS

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Falmouth
National Grid Reference:
SW 82131 32425

Details

FALMOUTH

SW83SW FALMOUTH DOCKS 843-1/2/238 Warehouse occupied by Bridon Ropes 23/01/73 Ltd (The Grain Store) (Formerly Listed as: Warehouse on the Docks, occup by British Ropes Ltd and Assoc Elect Industries)

II

Warehouse. 1860-1862. Killas rubble with rock-faced granite dressings; dry Delabole slate pair of hipped roofs behind granite-coped parapet with stepped granite cornice. Large rectangular plan with 2 opposing loading bays. 4 storeys; 1-1-2-1-1 bay front and rear. Original 3-light windows with horizontal glazing bars and central-opening casements except for C20 windows to 3rd-floor rear; tiered loading doorways one bay back from either end; ledged doors and original swivelling iron pulley brackets. Segmental keyed arches over windows and over 2 ground-floor doorways at either end with windows to each floor above. Small single-storey C20 extension to rear left. INTERIOR retains original cross-beam and joist floor structures and roof structure not inspected. Dates from the improvement of the docks at Falmouth which commenced in 1860.

Listing NGR: SW8213132425

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
460052
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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