Description

REDRUTH PENRYN STREET
SW 64 SE
(east side)
11/287
No.4
II
GV
Pair of shops with dwelling over. Early to mid C19; altered. Cross-wall
construction, the gable wall of uncoursed killas rubble with granite quoins, the
facade rendered above the ground floor shop fronts; slate roof with brick
chimneys. Rectangular plan with projecting stair turret to rear. Three storeys and
3 bays, almost symmetrical. The ground floor consists of two C19 shop fronts
flanking a central entrance passage; the shop windows are each of 4 tall lights
with semi-elliptical arched heads, secured by slender wooden shafts, the inner
light of each canted back to a recessed doorway, and the whole formerly
enclosed by a horizontal sliding shutter (the curved track of which is visible in
the soffit of the fascia); all 3 doorways have square overlights, that on the left
altered but the others with margin panes at top and bottom (those in the centre
coloured); deep fascia with dentilled cornice. The upper floors have a banded
pilaster to the right-hand corner; the central window on each floor is blind or
blocked, and that at 1st floor has a cornice on consoles; to the left of this is a
shallow oriel, formerly with rounded corners but now with altered glazing, to the
right a 4-pane sash; the outer bays at 2nd floor have 16-pane sashes; all these
windows have wooden architraves. Gable chimneys.

Listing NGR: SW6983241925

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455564

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)