Description

HELSTON

SW6427 CROSS STREET
631-1/4/112 (South side)
24/03/50 No.10

GV II

Town house. C17 or early C18, remodelled late C18 and early
C19. Painted rubble to front; Elvan ashlar to rear with
rusticated granite quoins and other dressings including
triangular pediment with oculus over Venetian windows to
ground and first floors; steep roofs, hipped wing: asbestos
slate behind parapet at the front, otherwise grouted scantle
slate; dressed granite stack on right with attached brick
stack and gabled brick lateral stack to right of rear wing.
L-shaped plan. 2-storey front; 3-window range. Early C19
twelve-pane hornless sashes to left and right; right of centre
is early C19 two-storey bowed bay with moulded cornice and
30-pane window over 40-pane window (including sidelights);
towards right a pilastered doorway, of similar or possibly C18
date, with moulded entablature and triangular pediment with
dentilled cornice and flush-beaded 6-panel door, and similar
reveals. Rear wing elevation has original or early C19 sashes
to its Venetian windows except for the central light of
1st-floor window with later C19 Y-traceried sash. INTERIOR not
inspected but said to have many good quality C18 features of
interest.

Listing NGR: SW6570527569

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490844

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)