Former offices of Abbot & Wickett

Sebastian House, Station Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2AD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309843
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: Former offices of Abbot & Wickett
Statutory Address:: Sebastian House, Station Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2AD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309843
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: Former offices of Abbot & Wickett
Statutory Address 1:: Sebastian House, Station Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2AD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Sebastian House, Station Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2AD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Redruth
National Grid Reference:: SW 69997 42000

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 July 2022 to update the name and address, amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 64 SE 11/301

REDRUTH STATION Road (north side) Sebastian House

(Formerly listed as STATION HILL (north side) Office, the left of a pair opposite Redruth Station carpark)

GV II

Office. Dated 1891 in pediment over door. Granite ashlar and red brick with elvan dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Single storey, probably over a basement, three bays, symmetrical, in eclectic style; plinth, rusticated corner pilasters; central round-headed doorway with panelled double doors and fanlight with curvilinear tracery, in an elaborate architrave including fluted keystone, foliated spandrels, two-stage pilasters, fluted consoles carrying a pediment breaking the eaves and surmounted by a finial, and the date 1891 in the pediment; wider outer bays almost filled by large segmental-headed windows with stone architraves, and round-headed lights with original curvilinear tracery; roof with bands of fishscale slates, coped gables, and gable chimneys.

INTERIOR: understood to be altered.

HISTORY: built in 1891, as the office of Abbot and Wickett, traders in stocks and shares. James Wickett (1841-1921) was a well-respected Redruthian who set up business with Samuel Abbot in 1880. Wickett was also prominent in the expansion of tin mining in Malaysia and was one of the first directors of the Redruth mining exchange, and later its chairman. It has been suggested that this building was designed by the Redruth architect James Hicks (1846-1896).

Listing NGR: SW6999742000

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Legacy System number:: 66863
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.