Description

880-1/7/288

TRURO
ST NICHOLAS STREET (North side),
No. 16

(Formerly listed as No. 15)

30-JUL-93

II

Shop with accommodation and store rooms over. Designed by James Hicks of Redruth for Messrs Criddle and Smith shortly before 1884. Brick with granite dressings;roof hidden behind parapet. Deep rectangular plan. Italianate style with early Gothic detail. 4 storeys; 3 bays. Double shop front with flanking pilasters to moulded entablature; first and second floors dominated by wide full-height central arch flanked by narrow arches carried on giant fluted pilasters with stiff-leaf foliate capitals; within these arches are 2 tiers of windows with central canted oriel to the first floor; central bay has windows with double transoms and coloured glass over the top transoms, otherwise horned sashes. Bold cornice beneath fourth floor or attic storey which has 5 windows under keyed round arches with pilasters between carrying the parapet entablature with turned balustrade over. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8255444830

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497252

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)