Mumfords

1-8, HUGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328825
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:
Mumfords
Statutory Address:
1-8, HUGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328825
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:
Mumfords
Statutory Address 1:
1-8, HUGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
MUMFORDS, GARRISON LANE
Statutory Address 3:
MUMFORDS, HUGH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-8, HUGH STREET
Statutory Address:
MUMFORDS, GARRISON LANE
Statutory Address:
MUMFORDS, HUGH STREET

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

District:
Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Mary's
National Grid Reference:
SV 90225 10564

Details

ST. MARY'S

SV9010 HUGH STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/58 (South side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive) Nos 1-8 including Mumfords

GV II

Terrace of 8 houses including shop. c 1926 by Richardson and Gill for the Duchy of Cornwall. Coursed and dressed granite; flat concrete roof behind parapet. Double-depth plan, with single and double-fronted houses all originally provided with kitchen, parlour and scullery. Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys; 24-window range to Hugh Street and 2-window return to Mumfords facing Garrison Lane. Each house has granite lintels and cills to one ground-floor tripartite sash with margin lights and horned 6/6-pane first-floor sashes. Keyed segmental arches over 6-panelled doors with fanlights. Mumfords has tripartite shop front on canted angle: articulated by 2 Doric half-columns to central half-glazed door with flanking sidelights and terminal Doric pilasters framing two 24-pane fixed shop windows; 6/6-pane sashes on canted corner above and to return. Whole terrace set on raised plinth with pilaster divisions between each house, plat band, cornice, parapet with coping and recessed stacks. Flat roofs chosen to resist Scilly windstorms. Included as a fine example of Richardson and Gill's work for the Duchy of Cornwall estate on Scilly. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SV9022510564

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Legacy System number:
62497
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.

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