Description

TRURO

SW8244NE PRINCE'S STREET
880-1/7/219 (South side)
29/12/50 Penhaligon House, Prince's Street
front
(Formerly Listed as:
PRINCE'S STREET
(South side)
Blackford's)

GV II*

Large town house, now bank. Early C18, for a member of the
Gregor family, partly destroyed by fire in 1923, extensively
repaired late 1980s. Local rubble walls, hipped dry Delabole
slate roof with projecting eaves and pierced clay ridge tiles.
Rectangular plan with 2 large rooms at the front flanking a
central entrance hall. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range.
Plinth, central stuccoed Tuscan doorway with engaged columns
and moulded entablature, wide 6-panel door with fielded
panels. Wide C20 tripartite horned sashes with glazing bars in
openings altered in the C18; rendered above second-floor
windows. INTERIOR: restored mid C18 plaster ceilings to
entrance hall and right-hand room: both ceilings have carved
and moulded modillioned cornices one with arabesques to
corners and centre. History: It is reputed that Tennyson (who
befriended the occupier and Cornish poet, Henry Sewell Stokes)
stayed here and during this time wrote "In Memoriam".
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: Prince's Street and The
Quay Area: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8279144775

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532801

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House