Pound House
POUND HOUSE, 3, POUND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281790
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pound House
- Statutory Address:
- POUND HOUSE, 3, POUND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281790
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Pound House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND HOUSE, 3, POUND 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:
- POUND HOUSE, 3, POUND 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 25210 64638
Details
LISKEARD
979-1/5/156 POUND STREET 15-NOV-93 (South side) 3 POUND HOUSE (Formerly listed as: POUND STREET 13 AND 13A)
II Town house of mid-C19, now divided into four flats.
MATERIALS: The building is constructed of stone rubble, with stucco to the front elevation, an asbestos slate roof and brick end stack. To the rear, half of the right gable is slate hung.
PLAN: Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: The building is of two-storeys with a symmetrical 3-window front plus extra doorway on the right. Within the principal (north) façade the building retains its original 12-pane hornless sashes on the first floor but the ground floor windows have been replaced with modern plastic framed versions. The central doorway has pilasters and moulded entablature with panelled reveal and door. The other doorway has a 4-pane door and overlight. The rear elevation also retains its original windows on the first floor with a small 8-pane window located within the centre of the property and two flanking 12-pane sashes similar to those on the principal façade.
INTERIOR: Not inspected
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION Pound House, 3 Pound Street, Liskeard is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * The building is of architectural significance as an example of a modest but pleasant mid-C19 town house with restrained classical detail and regionally distinctive slate hangings. * Group value with other C19, and earlier, listed buildings adjacent to it on Pound Street and The Parade.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382238
- 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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