4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280401
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/03492/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280401
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 5, RIVER 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:
- 4 AND 5, RIVER STREET
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 82460 44834
Details
TRURO
SW8244NW RIVER STREET 880-1/6/249 (South side) 08/01/71 Nos.4 AND 5
GV II
Town house. Early C19. Stucco on studwork to front, roof hidden from street level. Deep plan altered when converted to shops. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Quoin strips, mid-floor string with key-pattern frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Original 12-pane hornless sashes within architraves with scrolled ears under flat anthemion-decorated pediments to first floor and plain heads to 2nd floor which has aprons with shell decoration. Ground floor has C20 shop front on the left and late C19 shop front on the right which has transom over pair of doors and 2 plate-glass windows, small panes above with end consoles over pilasters and fascia with moulded cornice over dentils. INTERIOR: shop altered C20, otherwise not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW8246044834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377563
- 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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