St Columb Gallery and Museum
ST COLUMB GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BANK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327379
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Columb Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address:
- ST COLUMB GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BANK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327379
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Columb Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST COLUMB GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BANK 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:
- ST COLUMB GALLERY AND MUSEUM, BANK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Columb Major
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 91347 63658
Details
ST COLUMB MAJOR BANK STREET (west side), SW 9063-9163 St Columb Major 17/184 St Columb Gallery and Museum - GV II
St Columb Institute, now gallery and museum. Dated 1874, with few later alterations. Brick with granite dressings. Bitumenised slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts. Plan: There is a central room/entrance hall, with one large room to right and left. A passage through the right end. Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3:3:3 bays with the central bays broken forward under a larger gable, with a small central gable over each of the three bays to right and left. Plinth and band course. The centre has tall 2-centred arched doorway with brick hood mould, double plank doors with good ironwork. 2 centred arched window with plate-glass sashes to right and left with cill strings. At first floor there are three 2-centred arched lights, the central one taller, with string courses at impost level; recessed quatrefoil below with the date and plain stone quatrefoil above. 2-centred arch in the brickwork above. The 3 bays to left have central 2- centred arched doorway with similar single door. Plate-glass sash to right and left with square head and hood mould. The 3 bays to right have 3 similar plate-glass sashes. At first floor the bays to right and left have three 2-centred arched windows with string courses at impost level and a blind circle above. At the right end is a 2-centred arched granite doorway to the passage. The left end has 4-pane sash with segmental arch at ground floor; first floor has two 2-centred arched windows with plate-glass sashes. The rear has a shallow 2-storey wing to left, at first floor a C20 glazed door, 4-pane sash with segmental head and glazed dormer above with 2-light casement. To right the rear of the main range is blind. Interior: Not accessible.
Listing NGR: SW9134763658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71188
- 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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