Kilmar House and Attached Forecourt Railings
KILMAR HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 4, HIGHER LUX STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280144
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmar House and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- KILMAR HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 4, HIGHER LUX STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280144
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmar House and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILMAR HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 4, HIGHER LUX 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:
- KILMAR HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 4, HIGHER LUX STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Liskeard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 25312 64675
Details
LISKEARD
SX2564 HIGHER LUX STREET 979-1/5/115 (West side) 23/09/50 No.4 Kilmar House and attached forecourt railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGHER LUX STREET (West side) No.6 Kilmar House)
GV II
Town house. Mid C18, refronted 1808. Painted rubble with plinth; keyed flat arches and 1st-floor sill string; asbestos slate roof. Double-depth plan: C18 range at rear 1808 range in front. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. C20 hornless sashes with glazing bars; central C20 copy pedimented doorway with engaged Tuscan columns to consoles; moulded architrave; entablature with paterae and dentilled cornice; fielded panelled reveals and 6-panel door; wider ground floor windows with tripartite sashes. Rear wing is 3 storeys with slatehanging to upper floors. Right-hand return is 2 windows with pointed heads and intersecting glazing. INTERIOR much restored. Some C18 features including fielded panelled rear chamber and some ceiling cornices, otherwise 1808 features including open-well open-string staircase with turned newels and intermediate stanchions, moulded balusters and ramped mahogany handrail; geometric back stair with similar detail, moulded and carved ceiling cornices and panelled doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front area enclosed by spearhead railings with urn finials to main stanchions.
Listing NGR: SX2531264675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382203
- 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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