Description

PENRYN

SW7834SE ST GLUVIAS STREET
580-1/6/140 (West side)
21/10/77 No.27
Dolphin House
(Formerly Listed as:
ST GLUVIAS STREET
Nos.25 AND 27)

GV II

Three attached town houses, at some time a public house, now
one house. C17, remodelled C18 and refronted mid C19. Stucco
on rubble to front with plinth, end pilasters; eared
architraves, sill brackets and moulded mid-floor string;
otherwise painted rubble; steep dry slate roofs; rubble stack
on right; brick axial stack to rear wing. L-shaped plan
including former pair of small houses at right-angles to rear
right, former mill leat on its right. 2 storeys; slightly
asymmetrical 3-window range. C20 hornless sashes with glazing
bars; pilastered doorway slightly left of centre with consoles
and dentilled cornice; C20 door. INTERIOR renovated c1980 when
C17 front roof structure was replaced. Features that survive
include C17 ovolo-moulded wooden window (resited from ground
floor opening of rear wing); C18 dog-leg closed-string
staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail; late
C17/early C19 bolection-moulded chimneypiece to right-hand
chamber.
(The Penryn Survey Group: 1980-1990).

Listing NGR: SW7851134494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586076

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments