Pencowl
PENCOWL, 12, FERRIS TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282675
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pencowl
- Statutory Address:
- PENCOWL, 12, FERRIS TOWN
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- Date:
- 2003-02-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/08112/32
- Rights:
- © Mr Thomas Anthony Mellow. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282675
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pencowl
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENCOWL, 12, FERRIS TOWN
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:
- PENCOWL, 12, FERRIS TOWN
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 82150 44841
Details
TRURO
SW8244NW FERRIS TOWN 880-1/6/60 (South side) 19/06/73 No.12 Pencowl
GV II
Villa. c1830s. Built for Josephus Ferris, developer. Stucco on rubble; asbestos slate roof, hipped return on the left, projecting eaves at the front; brick end stacks. Square double-depth plan with 2 reception rooms flanking an entrance hall at the front plus service wings at the rear. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Central elliptically-arched doorway with porch on fluted Doric columns and moulded entablature; terminal quoin strips, keyblocks, original 16-pane hornless sashes. Left-hand return wall has later horned sashes on the left, blind windows on the right, widely spaced eaves brackets. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8215044841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
River Street and its Neighbourhood, (1980)
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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