The Mansion House and Attached Forecourt Railings
THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, PRINCES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280474
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion House and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, PRINCES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280474
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion House and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, PRINCES 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:
- THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, PRINCES 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 82743 44787
Details
TRURO
SW8244NE PRINCE'S STREET 880-1/7/221 (South side) 29/12/50 The Mansion House and attached forecourt railings
GV II*
Town house. c1760. By Thomas Edwards for Thomas Daniell, a merchant and mine owner. Granite ashlar to basement, freestone ashlar above; roof hidden by parapet; brick end stacks; scantle slate roof over carriageway. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall leading to service stairs and large stair halls on the right; 2 reception rooms at the front and 2 at the rear. 3 storeys over basement; symmetrical 5-window street front plus carriage entrance on the right. Basement as plinth; round-arched central doorway with engaged Tuscan columns and open pediment over an intricate fanlight; heavy moulded cornice with dentils under 2nd-floor windows, moulded parapet cornice and flat arches over early C19 hornless 12-pane sashes. On the right is an elliptical-arched vault spanning the carriage entrance above which is a C18 Venetian bay window with thick glazing bars. Rear elevation has canted bay windows. INTERIOR: retains most of its original good quality carpentry, joinery and plasterwork including open-well staircase with open string with key pattern over scrolled brackets, moulded and ramped handrail over scrolled wrought-iron balusters; Venetian stair window with fluted Ionic columns over a turned balustrade and a frieze with Vitruvian scroll; also decorated wall panels with broken pediments containing shells and moulded stairwell ceiling with lozenge panels. Most of the rooms have cornices and chimney-pieces: first-floor rear room has chimney-piece with shouldered architrave and cornice mantel with naturalistic carving of a dog in a landscape; original doors and doorcases, some with pediments; ground floor has very good quality ceilings with modillioned cornices. Service stair has chinoiserie geometric balustrade; entrance vestibule has coved ceiling and small inner vestibule has saucer-shaped dome over 6 round-arched doorways. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: broad flight of steps in front has curved wrought-iron balustrade with urn finials to newel stanchions, these return as railings to surround forecourt. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Prince's Street and The Quay Area: Truro: 1980-; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 285).
Listing NGR: SW8274344787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Princes Street and The Quay Area, (1980)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 285
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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