No 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
NO 4 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 4, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1297696
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- No 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 4, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1297696
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- No 4 and Attached Forecourt Walls, Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 4, CROSS 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:
- NO 4 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, STEPS AND RAILINGS, 4, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65741 27576
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 CROSS STREET 631-1/4/103 (South side) 24/03/50 No.4 and attached forecourt walls, steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: CROSS STREET (South side) No.4 The Vicarage)
GV II*
Vicarage, now private house. 1790s, remodelled slightly early C19. Possibly by Thomas Edwards. Granite ashlar with flat arches to basement; tall coped ashlar plinth above basement, rusticated quoins, also to central bay, mid-floor string; central pediment and parapet with modillion cornices; coursed Elvan at rear and Elvan rubble to sides; hipped concrete tiled roof with deep rendered end stacks. Double-depth plan with 2 front reception rooms flanking a central entrance hall leading to a large stair hall between kitchen on left and probable study on right. Late Georgian style. 2 storeys plus attics over basement; symmetrical 2:1:2-bay south front with pedimented central bay broken forward. Original, early C19 and C20 copy hornless sashes with glazing bars under flat arches with projecting key-blocks, those to ground floor in openings deepened early C19. Central bay has lunette to triangular pediment over sash with fanlight head over round-arched doorway with recessed architrave; original panelled door and concentric fanlight. Rear is 5-window range with hornless sashes with glazing bars including Venetian window left of centre and mid-floor windows to service stair right of centre. INTERIOR: largely complete and original but the plaster cornices of front rooms and stair hall were enriched in early C19 and the doors of the reception rooms were repositioned at the same time. Original panelled doors; early C19 window shutters to front rooms; original large open-well staircase with open-string with guttae; fluted stick balusters and ramped mahogany handrail scrolled over newel. Other principal rooms have original moulded cornices and most rooms have their original or early chimneypieces. The attics have 2-panel doors and there is a tie-beam roof structure; large cellars with stone flags and original doors. Many external and internal similarities to Bonython House, Cury (not included).
Listing NGR: SW6574127576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385450
- 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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