Description

TRURO

SW8244NW ST GEORGE'S ROAD 880-1/6/272 (North side) Nos.11 AND 12 and attached forecourt walls and railings

GV II

Pair of houses in row. Mid C19. Painted brick with stucco details; asbestos slate roof; deep brick chimneys over the cross walls. Pair of mirror-image plans with parallel entrance halls together in the centre: each house has reception room at the front and service room behind. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 4-window first-floor range to 1:1:1-bay front. Terminal quoin strips and consoles to eaves cornice; raised central bay has moulded hood on console brackets over mid C20 door (11) and original panelled door with overlight (12), and pair of horned 8-pane sashes set in raised and eared architraves with flanking rusticated quoin strips. Tripartite sashes with glazing bars to outer bays set in eared and raised segmental-arched architraves, with bracketed cornices to ground floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: shallow basement forecourts have front retaining walls which are surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials.

Listing NGR: SW8214344945

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501347

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)