Description

TRURO

SW8244NE LEMON STREET
880-1/7/170 (West side)
29/12/50 No.73

GV II

Town house, now shop and offices. c1799 by Mr Milford,
builder; C20 alterations. Granite ashlar front; asbestos slate
roof, behind parapet, and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan
altered late C19 to create carriageway on the left and to
insert shop in C20. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Wide
elliptically-arched doorway with rock-faced rustication, on
the left, with tall window to combined floors above; cornice
under parapet; large C20 shop front, on the right, 3 tall
first-floor windows and square second-floor windows with
original 6-pane hornless sashes, otherwise later horned sashes
but all under shallow segmental arches with projecting
keyblocks; left-hand window above shop front is narrower.
INTERIOR: first-floor rooms have original moulded and carved
ceiling cornices, otherwise not inspected. Included for group
value.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its
Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8257044682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501027

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