Description

LISKEARD

SX2564 FORE STREET
979-1/5/94 (East side)
22/07/81 No.3

GV II

Town house with shop. 1855. By Henry Rice. Stucco front,
slatehanging to left-hand end; dry Delabole slate roof with
cast-iron ogee gutters over moulded cornice with dentils. Deep
plan. 3 storeys; remarkably complete 2-window front in
classical style. Original windows; 16-pane hornless sashes
within moulded eared architraves with sills on corbels to
stepped sill string to 2nd floor; triangular pediments on
consoles over pilasters to round-headed traceried 2-light
sashes on bracketed sills to 1st floor and double shop front
with splayed doorway and slender columns flanking plate-glass
lights; end pilasters with consoles and C20 applied fascia
under full-width moulded cornice plus doorway on the left with
4-panel door and plain rectangular overlight. INTERIOR not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2519764480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498726

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)