Description

TRURO

SW8244NE LEMON STREET
880-1/7/173 (West side)
29/12/50 Nos.77 AND 78

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices. c1809. By Robert Blee,
builder. Local freestone ashlar front, roof hidden behind
parapet, brick end stack on the left. Double-depth
mirror-image pair with passage between. 3 storeys over blocked
basement; overall symmetrical 4-window front has plinth,
central round-arched passsage doorway flanked by 2 similar but
smaller doorways with projecting impost blocks, 6-panel doors,
plain fanlights. Other openings spanned by shallow segmental
arches with projecting keyblocks; moulded cornices under
parapets, bolder cornice to No.78 (right). Original hornless
sashes with glazing bars except where glazing bars have been
removed to ground-floor sashes and lower halves of first-floor
sashes to No.77 and later horned sashes to 2nd floor of No.78.
INTERIOR: many original features including moulded and carved
plaster ceiling cornices and bands.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its
Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8260044718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497210

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments