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

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