Description

ST DAY FORE STREET
SW 74 SW
(north side, corner of
11/350 Telegraph Street)
No.6,
with No.1 Telegraph Street
GV II
Shop and 2 cottages, now shop and one dwelling, with attached shop and cottage
now house (No.1 Telegraph Street). Early C19; altered. Cross-wall construction,
the cross walls of stone and the front and rear walls of light post-and-rail
construction infilled with rubble, with slate-hung cladding painted white, on a
plinth of large granite blocks; slurried slate roof (No.1 Telegraph Street has tiles
imitating slate). On oblique corner site, single-depth trapezoidal plan with shop
at left end, and No.1 Telegraph Street attached and slightly canted back at the
right-hand end. Two low storeys and 3+2 bays in total; the shop has a chamfered
corner containing the doorway, a wide shop-window of 6 large panes, and another
doorway to the right, both doorways with pilaster jambs, and all under a plain
fascia and simple cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; at 1st floor, the end
over the doorway has an inverted triangle of fishscale slates, and the front has a
4-pane sashed window. To the right, each cottage has one 4-pane sash on each
floor, with the doorway to the 2nd cottage between the ground-floor windows;
and rear-wall chimneys. No.1 Telegraph Street, of 2 bays slightly canted back,
has an altered former shop front in the 1st bay, with slender pilastered jambs to
a blocked doorway at its right-hand end, and a 4-pane sash and modern doorway
to the left, all under a plain fascia and cornice with egg-and-dart decoration;
one 4-pane sash to the right and 2 above; and a gable chimney. Interior:
cottages to right of shop were formerly one-up-one-down, each with a deep
square granite fireplace in the rear wall; plaster now removed to expose wall
construction; modern additions to rear.
Forms an attractive enclosure to the north-west side of a triangular junction
which was formerly the site of St Day cross.

Listing NGR: SW7292042515

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455977

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)