CARVEDRAS HOUSE

CARVEDRAS HOUSE, ST GEORGE'S ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280395
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CARVEDRAS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CARVEDRAS HOUSE, ST GEORGE'S ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280395
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CARVEDRAS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CARVEDRAS HOUSE, ST GEORGE'S ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CARVEDRAS HOUSE, ST GEORGE'S ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Truro
National Grid Reference:: SW 82024 44989

Details

TRURO

SW8244NW ST GEORGE'S ROAD 880-1/6/278 (South side) 19/06/73 Carvedras House

GV II

House, now vicarage. Early C19. Stuccoed walls, hipped grouted scantle slate roof with projecting eaves and stuccoed stacks over the side walls. Double-depth plan with 2 front reception rooms flanking a central entrance hall. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Plinth and mid-floor band; central doorway with panelled door with overlight and distyle porch with square columns and entablature; original 16-pane hornless sashes within flat architraves with moulded hoods on consoles to ground-floor openings. INTERIOR: retains most of its original carpentry; joinery and plasterwork details including panelled doors and shutters, open-well open-string stair with mahogany handrail over scrolled newel and moulded plaster cornices to the front rooms. In the garden adjacent to the church is the well which served the former Dominican Friary 1259-1538. (Barratt R: A Short History of the Parish and Church of St George-the-Martyr).

Listing NGR: SW8202444989

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Legacy System number:: 377588
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Barratt, R, A Short History of the Parish and Church of St George the Martyr

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.