Former St Clements Hospital
Yew Tree Court, Chy Hwel, Truro, TR1 1AF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282636
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Clements Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Yew Tree Court, Chy Hwel, Truro, TR1 1AF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282636
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Clements Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Yew Tree Court, Chy Hwel, Truro, TR1 1AF
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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:
- Yew Tree Court, Chy Hwel, Truro, TR1 1AF
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 83866 45619
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 April 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SW8345
19/06/73
TRURO
Yew Tree Court (Former St Clements Hospital)
(Formerly listed as TREGOLLS ROAD (East side) St Clements Hospital (County Isolation Hospital))
19/06/73
II
Workhouse, isolation hospital at time of listing. 1851. Built as the Truro Union Workhouse. Coursed Bath stone with granite dressings to entrance wing, otherwise local rubble with brick dressings; granite sills, keyblocks, eaves cornices and coped gable ends; dry Delabole slate gabled roof over entrance wing, otherwise replaced with asbestos slate; brick axial stacks. Large plan with wings ranged round three courtyards; E-shaped plus end wings to entrance range wing; central octagonal tower. Entrance wing is two storeys with single-storey entrance porch and two projecting wings all under same eaves level, otherwise three storeys except for four-storey tower. Symmetrical 3:1:3:1:3:1:3-bay entrance front has plinth, string, chamfered eaves cornice and coped gables with moulded kneelers to the projecting single bays with tall round arches with voussoirs and keyblocks. Otherwise first-floor sashes within square-headed openings above round-arched ground-floor windows with projecting keyblocks and original hornless sashes with glazing bars and spoked fanlight heads. Central doorway has spoked fanlight over C20 reduced door (originally with iron gates). Other elevations similarly unaltered, except where hidden by C20 additions, and retain most of the original hornless sashes with glazing bars set in brick surrounds with keyblocks to upper floors.
INTERIOR: cantilevered granite staircases.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: From Moresk Road to Malpas: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8386645619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
From Moresk Road to Malpas, (1988)
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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