Description

TRURO

SW8244NW EDWARD STREET
880-1/6/40 (West side)
19/06/73 No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
EDWARD STREET
(West side)
Fletcher's Hotel)

GV II

Villa. Early C19. Probably by Philip Sambell for Josephus
Ferris, developer. Stuccoed masonry; asbestos slate hipped
roof with projecting eaves. Rectangular plan, 3 rooms deep, 2
rooms wide; central entrance hall. 2 storeys; symmetrical
3-window front to Edward Street has central wide
elliptically-arched doorway with 4-panel door, fanlight and
scribed pilasters and rusticated architraves within
flat-roofed open porch on fluted Doric columns; panelled quoin
pilasters and moulded window architraves with late C19
four-pane horned sashes and widely-spaced eaves brackets.
Frances Street elevation has overall 4-window front:
symmetrical 3-window front with rusticated quoins, on the
left, and 1-window return of Edward Street front, on the
right. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its
Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8225644899

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571595

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)