Listing Text

REDRUTH PENRYN STREET
SW 64 SE
(west side)
11/290
Old Courthouse (formerly listed
28.9.78
as Old Town Hall)
GV
II
Town Hall, now club. 1850, by Robert Blee; altered. Granite ashlar, slate roof.
Double-depth plan. Two storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, in Doric style, with
raised quoins, 1st floor string-course, and triglyph frieze; in the centre, a wide
recessed porch with Tuscan columns distyle in antis, triglyph frieze with roundels
on the metopes, and a cornice, channelled rustication to the interior of the
porch finished as quoins to the surround, and panelled double doors (the top
panels glazed); above the porch, a tripartite sashed window in an architrave with
pilaster jambs, plain frieze and prominent cornice; two 12-pane sashed windows
on each floor, those at ground floor with quoined surrounds, stepped voussoirs,
and panelled aprons, and those above with broad shouldered architraves; crowning
frieze of triglyphs with wreaths; mutules to projecting eaves. Gable chimneys.
Interior: imperial staircase with stick balusters; full-width room at 1st floor
formerly used as courtroom, but altered; otherwise, altered.

Listing NGR: SW6982641869