Description

TRURO

SW8244SE CARCLEW TERRACE 880-1/11/26 Nos.1-15 (Consecutive) and attached front and rear forecourt walls

GV II

Terrace of 7 pairs of houses and 1 house. c1820s. Dressed stone and roughly coursed rubble; No.15 is rendered and has grouted scantle slate roof, otherwise roofs are asbestos slate; No.15 (left) has slate-hung gable end; brick end stacks; cast-iron ogee gutters to Nos 2, 3, 6, 7, 10-13. Seven pairs of houses with mirror-image double-depth (ground floor) plans and a 2-room plan house. Each house of the pairs has a reception room at the front and a kitchen behind plus various extensions, parallel entrance halls in the centre; house (No.1) has 2 receptions rooms at the front flanking a central passage. 2 storeys; overall 23-window range. Structurally, a virtually intact terrace with all the original openings and some original doors and windows; round-headed doorways with blind fanlights; window openings spanned by shallow arches. Pairs have symmetrical 3-window fronts. No.1 has doorway slightly left of centre to provide space for access beside rear wing (No.48 Carclew Street, not included). Original panelled doors to Nos 2, 6 & 12; original sashes with glazing bars to Nos 6 & 15; some original sashes with intermediate glazing bars removed (Nos 10, 11, 12), otherwise later sashes except for Nos 1 (ground floor), 3 (1st floor) & 14 which have C20 windows. INTERIOR not inspected but noted as having original fireplaces, panelled shutters and doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: grouted rubble walls, across the stone-paved courtyard in front, have dressed granite copings. Walls removed in front of Nos 8-14. Walls linking service blocks to rear. Carclew Terrace is one of the most complete examples of small planned early C19 terrace houses in the south-west. (Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8264944455

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