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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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